withQueryParameters

[graceful crest]

Hi all, thanks for taking the time to look at my post :)

im fairly new to PHP and Laravel, im trying to make a URL with query paramaters, to call an API:

$devices = MyModel::pluck('uuid')->all(); here i'm pulling a single column from my table and then trying to generate my URL string like this:

               'Authorization' => "Bearer $accessToken",
           ])->withQueryParameters(['devicesUuids' => $chunk ])->get(
               "https://euabc.cdb",
           );

however my string is returning like so:
https://euabc.cdb?devicesUuids%5B0%5D=abc?devicesUuids5B0%5D=thd&devicesUuids5B0%5D=123

when i print out my array it display's like:

[0] => value
[1] => value
[2] => value

has anyone got any advice how i can remote the %5B0%5D which i think is [ ]

[dreamy bobcat]

you're correct: %5B0%5D is [].

you sure you want to remove it? that's how usually multiple values in the same key are parsed in query string, either that or empty arrays like ?key[]=value&key[]=value.

if you really don't need that just taking the string and maniplating it for removing the %5B0%5D should work

[graceful crest]

The API im trying to hit is .net and from the example request they've given me they're not there

[elfin geode]

The same query parameter name is just repeated?

[graceful crest]

Yea

[elfin geode]

In that case, you need to build the URL yourself, or remove the [] part

E.g. using http_build_query, or just a loop

[graceful crest]

Going by this, I don't understand why the default is with the brackets

[elfin geode]

There seems to be no standard way, but HTML forms does the param[], so php chose that path.

[graceful crest]

ok im getting the same results when doing this:

            $queryParams = http_build_query(['devicesUuids' => $chunk]);```

[elfin geode]

But in that image, there is no array data, so that says absolutely nothing about your use case

[graceful crest]

no thats true but thats what im trying to achive, sorry i think i confused the question abit ignore that image

[elfin geode]

If the docs says to not have [], and having [] for array data doesn't work, then you need to build a URL without the [] part. E.g. using http_build_query and then removing it.

[graceful crest]

was trying to not traverse back over it and do it on the fly, okay i'll give it ago seems either way i try it i get the same problem. well it's not a problem it's obviusly normal behaviour

i oringinally thought it was because when i print my array it appears as index - value and i thought it was grabbing the index

[elfin geode]

You just need to build a string a=...&a=...&a=...? Doesn't seem like a difficult programming task

[graceful crest]

no it's not; since im new to PHP i thought i was doing something wrong is all

[elfin geode]

But i'd still recommend using http_build_query and then just replace all [], to ensure you get all encoding correct (and, it's two lines of code)

[graceful crest]

thank you for the advice, now i know this is normal behaviour

[elfin geode]

I have never seen a=...&a=...&a=..., so not very normal to me, but if the API docs says do to so, then you need to do so

(Assuming, again, you have verified the [] is the problem)

[graceful crest]

well not yet, all i get back right now is a support error and the company takes ages to reply. once i verify it in a second i'll know for sure

[cyan lily]

@graceful crest what exactly do you want to do? Do you want deviceUuids to appear multiple times, or do you want the array value to be flattened to a string?

[graceful crest]

so im calling a API, that returns me back data based on uuid as a query paramter, it can accept multiple ones...

so the doco's says it should look like:

<url>?devicesUuids=string1&devicesUuids=string2 calling two devices

[cyan lily]

Ah, yeah PHP won't do that natively

Because it uses an array to store it, and each subsequent param would overwrite the previous

You can't do what you need to do with the Laravel HTTP client unfortunately

As the convention in PHP is to do that stupid deviceUuids[] stuff

[graceful crest]

yes looking at the string and tryng to call 30 of these bad boi's it does look like it's incrementing it up [1] - [2] when i just tried the str_replace i didnt notice it was incrementing xD

now i see it

tbh i thought it was because when i cal Array in laravel, it prints out as

[1] => value
[2] => value

so today i was trying to flatten it out to just a plain string array [value, value]

[cyan lily]

It's definitely a PHP thing rather than Laravel, though there isn't a way to do what you need with Laravel without doing some really hacky stuff

[graceful crest]

always great when your exploring new frameworks

this damn backend API call is only going to call every 120 seconds to pull and data for me to display, turning into abit of a horror show; anyway if Http isnt going to do this, do you have a suggestion another way?

[elfin geode]

Here's a very simple implementation, if you don't need to worry about encoding (I'm guessing the UUIDs are alphanumeric)

> $query = implode('&', array_map(fn ($uuid) => "deviceUuids=$uuid", $uuids))
= "deviceUuids=123&deviceUuids=456&deviceUuids=abc&deviceUuids=def"

[graceful crest]

the uuid's are exactly that uuid, so just a jumble 0e4bge15d-bd363-4a51-ad7b-792cf25f6d40 for example

[elfin geode]

Yes, exactly

You'll use Http::, you just have to compute the URL first

And just ->get("https://euabc.cdb?$query")

[graceful crest]

thank you very much for the help on this, looks like there was abit of a nicer way (visually) $cleanedParams = preg_replace('/%5B\d+%5D/', '', $queryParams);

[elfin geode]

How many uuids will you have?

[graceful crest]

194 but im using chunk to do 30 at a time

[elfin geode]

Watch out for generating too long URLs, some systems have length limits, like 4k