RESTDataSource GET with nested parameter

[lclankyo]

Greetings,

I want to be able to do something like this:
const data = await this.get('person', { per_page: 1, filter: { name: "John", label: "Doe" }, });
It should produce a call
/person?per_page=1&filter[name]=John&filter[label]=Doe

I was struggling to find how to do this and was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. Thanks!

[glasser]

Does this.get('person', { per_page: 1, 'filter[name]': "John", 'filter[label]': "Doe" }) solve your problem?

The params argument is just a standard web URLSearchParams constructor argument so I don't think changing it to specially handle nested data in a non-standard way would make much sense. Are you working with somebody else's API or do you have control over the API yourself? I feel like it's a lot more common these days to just use a POSTed JSON body for complex nested parameters rather than trying to shoehorn them into the limited GET encoding...

[lclankyo]

Thanks a lot for the reply. Unfortunately, I do not have control to make it a post.

I was looking at your suggestion, and that would require some more data transformation, which was something I was trying to avoid if possible. But if transforming the data some more is the only solution, then I will do that.