query string in $resource url

Question

query string in $resource url

my service has to use a query string due to limitations on the server that runs classic ASP:

angular
  .module('myServices', ['ng', 'ngResource'])
  .factory('Item', ['$resource',
     function ($resource) {
         return $resource('/api/?p=item/:id');
     }]);

and I want to add extra query string parameters to it:

Item.query({test: 123}, on_success, on_error);

but the resulting url is

/api/?p=item?test=123

apparently there is a bug, but how to get around it?

EDIT: filed this at https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/1511

angularjs

Answer 1

You can use resource parameters. If you haven't specified placeholders in the path, they would automatically be converted into query string params. Like that:

angular
    .module('myServices', ['ng', 'ngResource'])
    .factory('Item', [
         '$resource',
         function ($resource) {
             return $resource('/api');
     }]);

Item.query({p: 'item/1'});

This would result in a request to /api?p=item/1.

P.S.

I suppose you already know that, but you don't like it. But I still think this is the correct way in your case. Considering the bad API design you are dealing with that back-end you could wrap the AngularJS resources with another service which does this for you.