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garethdn
garethdn

Reputation: 12373

Modifying the default URL encoding for Angular's router navigate method

I need to customize how my URLs are encoded when calling the navigate method on the router.

I know I need to implement my own version of UrlSerializer and write a custom serialize method. My problem is really that the only method I wish to change is the encode method in url_tree.

export function encode(s) {
    return encodeURIComponent(s);
}

https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/modules/@angular/router/src/url_tree.ts#L344

In order to do this I need to copy + paste all the following methods from url_tree into my CustomSerializer because they are not exported:

serialize

serializeQueryParams

Pair

pairs

serializeSegment

encode

I've looked at this answer but it doesn't quite solve my problem as I want all the default behaviour except for the encode method.

Am I missing something here or is there a better way to solve this issue?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4017

Answers (1)

jigar gala
jigar gala

Reputation: 1650

Angular2 by default uses encodeURIComponent() to encode queryParams in URL, you can avoid it by writing custom URL serializer and override default functionality.

In my case, I wanted to avoid Angular2 to avoid replacing comma(,) by (%2C). I was passing Query as lang=en-us,en-uk where it was getting converted to lang=en-us%2Cen-uk.

Here how I worked it out:

CustomUrlSerializer.ts

import {UrlSerializer, UrlTree, DefaultUrlSerializer} from '@angular/router';

export class CustomUrlSerializer implements UrlSerializer {
    parse(url: any): UrlTree {
        let dus = new DefaultUrlSerializer();
        return dus.parse(url);
    }

    serialize(tree: UrlTree): any {
        let dus = new DefaultUrlSerializer(),
        path = dus.serialize(tree);
        // use your regex to replace as per your requirement.
        return path.replace(/%2C/g,',');
      }
   }

Add below line to your main appModule.ts

import {UrlSerializer} from '@angular/router';
import {CustomUrlSerializer} from './CustomUrlSerializer';

@NgModule({
    providers: [{ provide: UrlSerializer, useClass: CustomUrlSerializer }]
})

This won't break your default functionality and take cares of URL as per your need.

Upvotes: 6

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