Question about Rails-formatted query params in URL

Rails
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Hi all,

I am seeing a behavior for which I can’t find documentation. I am
posting a form to a url with query params formatted in the Rails manner:

/controller/action?foo[bar]=3 # Of course, the brackets are properly
encoded

When doing this, the actual form fields get lost, e.g.

params[:foo] # This gives {:bar => 3}

even though the form has other fields for foo.

Any ideas?

Thanks so much,

Brian H.

2

What is shown in the log file for the parameters for the request? You
should
see data
Processing YourController#method … Parameters: …

Colin

2009/5/29 Brian H. [email protected]

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On May 29, 3:04 pm, Brian H. [email protected]
wrote:

params[:foo] # This gives {:bar => 3}

even though the form has other fields for foo.

so params[:foo] is being populated partially from parameters in the
URL, partially from form parameters ? Some of the parameter parsing
stuff changed in 2.3.2 so if you are using 2.3.2 would be interesting
to see if this is a regression.

Fred

4

Now that I’ve done a bit more testing, I think this is simply a
namespace collision. I think that query parameters and form parameters
share a namespace (the request), and it’s reasonable to have weird or
undefined behavior when there is a collision. It seems like Rails
behavior is to handle the form params first, putting them in the
‘params’ hash, then handle the query params. The Hash class’ behavior
would dictate a ‘last in wins’ behavior, which is consistent with what
I’m seeing.

I found that I don’t really have to encode that parameter in the URL,
which solves my immediate problem.

Thanks!