Backbone decodes my query strings

Question

Backbone keeps decoding my query string params. For example when I do

var query_string = encodeURIComponent('New York')
Backbone.history.navigate('search?location='+query_string, {trigger: true})

I get an URL with path:

/#search?location=New York

instead of

/#search?location=New%20York

I'm not using pushState and I've read that in 1.0.0 version he decodes the fragment in the URL. So any suggestions how can I achieve this, or something similar maybe?

FYI your `encodeURIcomponent ` should have a capital `C`: `encodeURIComponent`. — Miguel Mota, Sep 23 '15 at 20:46

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 23 '15 at 21:19

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Unicode characters in location.pathname are percent encoded so they're decoded for comparison.

https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/blob/master/backbone.js#L1587

You might have to fork the library and remove or modify decodeFragment method.

answered Sep 23 '15 at 21:19

Miguel Mota

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Is it a problem if I simply have this types of URLs `/#search?location=New York&type=gym` ? – Vlatko Ristovski Sep 23 '15 at 21:32
@VlatkoRistovski I don't see any problems with the way they implemented it – Miguel Mota Sep 23 '15 at 21:35

Backbone decodes my query strings

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