query string in $resource url

Question

my service has to use a query string due to limitations on the server that runs classic ASP:

angular   .module('myServices', ['ng', 'ngResource'])   .factory('Item', ['$resource',      function ($resource) {          return $resource('/api/?p=item/:id');      }]); 

and I want to add extra query string parameters to it:

Item.query({test: 123}, on_success, on_error); 

but the resulting url is

/api/?p=item?test=123 

apparently there is a bug, but how to get around it?

EDIT: filed this at https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/1511

Answer 1

You can use resource parameters. If you haven't specified placeholders in the path, they would automatically be converted into query string params. Like that:

angular     .module('myServices', ['ng', 'ngResource'])     .factory('Item', [          '$resource',          function ($resource) {              return $resource('/api');      }]);  Item.query({p: 'item/1'}); 

This would result in a request to /api?p=item/1.

P.S.

I suppose you already know that, but you don't like it. But I still think this is the correct way in your case. Considering the bad API design you are dealing with that back-end you could wrap the AngularJS resources with another service which does this for you.