URL encode in Squirrel

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Hello everyone,

Is there a library that I could use in Squirrel to urlencode a string? I want to create an urlencoded string and pass it to the HTTP Post vimp (need multiple values sent to the server). For now I am doing it all manually but I'd love a way to automate things (something that receives an array and spits out the proper urlencoded string).

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Razvan

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I believe you can just send an array direct to HTTP post if you want to send multiple values? Might be simpler.

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Thanks Hugo! I've tried that since I saw it suggested in another thread, but it didn't appear to work, I would only get a single value (a 1) as the value, not the entire array I passed as a parameter. I made sure I changed the output type to "array" instead of "string" (what's weird is that passing a string also worked when the output type was set to "number" - I guess that's a bug).

 

Anyway, I ended up encoding everything in JSON, like

stringtosend=@"

{

""key1"": ""value1"",

""key2"": ""value2"",

}";

(double double quotes replace regular double quotes inside the string - that's apparently how it's done in Squirrel verbatim strings)

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drazvan, can you please post an example of how you did this from your code?  This is pretty much what I need to do, and I’m struggling trying to figure it out.


Thanks!
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I'm not doing it in code, I am simply passing a hardcoded (verbatim) JSON string to the string output.

output.set(@"{
    ""key1"": ""value1"",
    ""key2"": ""value2"",
    ""key3"": ""value3""
}");

 

Make sure you use double double quotes instead of single double quotes for each string (so it's ""key1"" and not "key1").

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Did you ever figure out a way to url encode a string? I know the data I’d be passing in the JSON array is url safe, because it’s my data, but I’d still like to url encode it if possible.

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If you put the string into a blob it will be base64 encoded when it is delivered to you. I think if you just pass a regular string it may be encoded by the http post vimp before it is sent? (I’m not sure in that one)

I do know that if you pass native squirrel tables to the output port it will automatically be JSON encoded before it is delivered to your webserver