How to read a parameter with a period using Express in Node JS?

Question

My macro is called from a url containing parameters like:

?title=TitleHere&macro.id=a1

I'm finding it easy to pick up the title, but I am getting an error when trying to get the macro.id parameter as follows.

var requestTitle = req.query.title;
var requestMacroId = req.query.macro.id;

What is the correct way to get a parameter with a period in the name?

Possible duplicate of [How to get JSON objects value if its name contains dots?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2577172/how-to-get-json-objects-value-if-its-name-contains-dots) — str, Aug 23 '17 at 11:17
@str it's about express node.js module, not about parsing json. — alexmac, Aug 23 '17 at 11:18
@alexmac It is not specific to the module, but to how you access properties. The same concepts apply. — str, Aug 23 '17 at 11:19
The context is different enough that I wouldn't have known that question had the same answer. Thanks to @alexmac and kGielo, it's solved. — Thomas, Aug 23 '17 at 13:24

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 23 '17 at 11:20

4

Try

var requestTitle = req.query['title'];
var requestMacroId = req.query['macro.id'];

answered Aug 23 '17 at 11:20

kGielo

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