URL parameters are made of a key and a value, separated by an equal sign (=). Multiple parameters are each then separated by an ampersand (&).
URI parameter (Path Param) is basically used to identify a specific resource or resources whereas Query Parameter is used to sort/filter those resources. Let's consider an example where you want identify the employee on the basis of employeeID, and in that case, you will be using the URI param.
There is no protocol information given in URI. It contains components such as protocol, domain, path, hash, query string, etc.
Use this:
string uri = ...;
string queryString = new System.Uri(uri).Query;
var queryDictionary = System.Web.HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(queryString);
This code by Tejs isn't the 'proper' way to get the query string from the URI:
string.Join(string.Empty, uri.Split('?').Skip(1));
You can use:
var queryString = url.Substring(url.IndexOf('?')).Split('#')[0]
System.Web.HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(queryString)
MSDN
This should work:
string url = "http://example.com/file?a=1&b=2&c=string%20param";
string querystring = url.Substring(url.IndexOf('?'));
System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection parameters =
System.Web.HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(querystring);
According to MSDN. Not the exact collectiontype you are looking for, but nevertheless useful.
Edit: Apparently, if you supply the complete url to ParseQueryString
it will add 'http://example.com/file?a' as the first key of the collection. Since that is probably not what you want, I added the substring to get only the relevant part of the url.
I had to do this for a modern windows app. I used the following:
public static class UriExtensions
{
private static readonly Regex _regex = new Regex(@"[?&](\w[\w.]*)=([^?&]+)");
public static IReadOnlyDictionary<string, string> ParseQueryString(this Uri uri)
{
var match = _regex.Match(uri.PathAndQuery);
var paramaters = new Dictionary<string, string>();
while (match.Success)
{
paramaters.Add(match.Groups[1].Value, match.Groups[2].Value);
match = match.NextMatch();
}
return paramaters;
}
}
Have a look at HttpUtility.ParseQueryString() It'll give you a NameValueCollection
instead of a dictionary, but should still do what you need.
The other option is to use string.Split()
.
string url = @"http://example.com/file?a=1&b=2&c=string%20param";
string[] parts = url.Split(new char[] {'?','&'});
///parts[0] now contains http://example.com/file
///parts[1] = "a=1"
///parts[2] = "b=2"
///parts[3] = "c=string%20param"
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