Issue with deep query string parsing

[abdalem]

Hi everyone. I have an issue on one of my query. Some context, we are building a filter group feature and we want to allow, via a query string, to filter with a mongo like filter in query string. The first screen is the payload, the second one is the parsed query string. As you can see, at a given depth, the object is messed up. Thanks by advance guys !

[aikrom]

Hey! AdonisJS uses the qs package to parse the query string and by default, when nesting objects, qs will only parse up to 5 children. In the controller, you can manually parse a query string of any depth.

import qs from 'qs'
import type { HttpContextContract } from '@ioc:Adonis/Core/HttpContext'

export default class TestController {
  public async index({ request }: HttpContextContract) {
    const query = qs.parse(request.parsedUrl.query, { depth: 10 });
  }
}

Also you can try to override the query string somewhere in the middleware (I haven't tested) with Request.updateQs(...)

Here you can find more about how query string parsing works.

[abdalem]

Thank you very much @aikrom

[aikrom]

It seems there was a way to set up query string parsing. This is covered in the docs for v6, but will also work with v5.