MVC multiple parameter routing - asp.net-mvc-4

I've been trying to pull the parameters passed into a page so I can post it back in Context.
So far,
ViewBag.Message = string.Format("{0}::{1}::{2}",
RouteData.Values["controller"],
RouteData.Values["actions"],
RouteData.Values["id"]);
works with anything simple like "66" or "tt" but anything more complex like "?name=blargh?viewId=66" and it fails.
I've tried a bunch of different ways to see if I could strike gold but nothing seems to work so does anybody have any idea what I'm missing/doing wrong/should be doing instead?

" but anything more complex like "?name=blargh?viewId=66" and it fails.
This doesn't seem to be routing information but query string which you should retrieve from the Request.QueryString bag.
If the {id} parameter is part of your route (as the default routes {controller}/{action}/{id}) I hope you realize that this id cannot be anything you like just because there are rules for an url. For example it cannot contain ? because this symbol has an entirely different meaning in an url - it represents the query string separator.

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Algolia vue-instantsearch : disjunction between two distincts facets

Using algolia vue-instantsearch, i’m encountering a special case and i’m having an hard time finding a solution.
Refinement behaviors is that you get the results that matches all your refinement filters.
If i filter on a brand and a price, i’ll get the results that matches both the brand and the price.
I need to add some specific filters that work differently. I would like to be able to say “returns me the results that matches either refinementA, or refinementB, or refinementC.”
The reason is that those refinements are checking fields that are not present on all the products.
If i check a value for refinementA, i want to keep all the results that has no value for field corresponding to refinementA, but remove those that has a value for refinementA that does not match with the one i filtered one.
Im thinking about handling myself some inputs instead of ias-components, and modifying by hand each query that is send to algolia by checking the value of my own inputs when searchFunction is triggered (https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/widgets/instantsearch/js/#widget-param-searchfunction).
I did not found yet how i can trigger a search from an non-vue-instantsearch input event, and i’m not sure how the above solution could affect the internal working of vue-instantsearch.
I’m looking for feedbacks about a more standard way of doing this, or for any advices !
I got the answer by exchanging with a vue-instantsearch maintainer.
vue-instantsearch does not provide any option to do it.
A workaround is to overwrite algoliasearch search method, that is used under the hood by vue-instant-search.
const client = algoliasearch('', '');
const originalSearch = client.search;
client.search = function search(queries) { ... }
More informations in this github issue : https://github.com/algolia/vue-instantsearch/issues/1102

How to get query string on search page in shopify

I have a shopify store. I am passing new parameters on search page using query string anyone tell me how can i get this new query string on search page
You can't get new parameters outside the default ones using liquid. Liquid is now aware of additional query parameters.
If you really really have to take them in liquid then you will have a hacky option to capture the content_for_header argument and you can extract the arguments from there ( since there is a URL with the query params there ) with a few splits. You will need to look for the pageurl string there. But like I said this is a hacky way which should be used as a last resort.

batchGet endpoint behavior with multiple photos

I am testing the photos.batchGet endpoint.
Per the API docs, it takes two URL parameters "view" and "photoIds". When I try the photoIds parameter, the request only works with one photoId. Using multiple photoIds fails.
I tried using a delimeter between the photoIds in the string (by using a comma, pipe, and space). I also tried not using a delimeter at all. Not using a delimeter returns a response for the last photoId in the string, but not for any of the other photoIds. In short, none of my requests appear to be working. Am I doing something wrong?
Also, depending on server configuration, I think it's recommended for the URL length to be under 2,000 characters. Anything above 30 photoIds would create URLs longer than this.
That being said, maybe it would be better to make this a POST request that accepts a JSON request body? Just a thought, but think this would be better suited. A lot of our tours are above 30 scenes, and we even had a tour with 700 scenes!
The description of the batchGet function was updated. Per the documentation you should pass photoIds as a string and the URL query parameter should be photoIds=<id1>&photoIds=<id2>.

How can I access query string parameters for requests I've manually dispatched in Laravel 4?

I'm writing a simple API, and building a simple web application on top of this API.
Because I want to "consume my own API" directly, I first Googled and found this answer on StackOverflow which answers my initial question perfectly: Consuming my own Laravel API
Now, this works great, I'm able to access my API by doing something like:
$request = Request::create('/api/cars/'.$id, 'GET');
$instance = json_decode(Route::dispatch($request)->getContent());
This is great! But, my API also allows you to add an optional fields parameter to the GET query string to specify specific attributes that should be returned, such as this:
http://cars.com/api/cars/1?fields=id,color
Now the way I actually handle this in the API is something along the lines of this:
public function show(Car $car)
{
if(Input::has('fields'))
{
//Here I do some logic and basically return only fields requested
....
...
}
I would assume that I could do something similar as I did with the query string parameter-less approach before, something like this:
$request = Request::create('/api/cars/' . $id . '?fields=id,color', 'GET');
$instance = json_decode(Route::dispatch($request)->getContent());
BUT, it doesn't seem so. Long story short, after stepping through the code it seems that the Request object is correctly created (and it correctly pulls out the fields parameter and assigns id,color to it), and the Route seems to be dispatched OK, but within my API controller itself I do not know how to access the field parameter. Using Input::get('fields') (which is what I use for "normal" requests) returns nothing, and I'm fairly certain that's because the static Input is referencing or scoping to the initial request the came in, NOT the new request I dispatched "manually" from within the app itself.
So, my question is really how should I be doing this? Am I doing something wrong? Ideally I'd like to avoid doing anything ugly or special in my API controller, I'd like to be able to use Input::get for the internally dispatched requests and not have to make a second check , etc.
You are correct in that using Input is actually referencing the current request and not your newly created request. Your input will be available on the request instance itself that you instantiate with Request::create().
If you were using (as you should be) Illuminate\Http\Request to instantiate your request then you can use $request->input('key') or $request->query('key') to get parameters from the query string.
Now, the problem here is that you might not have your Illuminate\Http\Request instance available to you in the route. A solution here (so that you can continue using the Input facade) is to physically replace the input on the current request, then switch it back.
// Store the original input of the request and then replace the input with your request instances input.
$originalInput = Request::input();
Request::replace($request->input());
// Dispatch your request instance with the router.
$response = Route::dispatch($request);
// Replace the input again with the original request input.
Request::replace($originalInput);
This should work (in theory) and you should still be able to use your original request input before and after your internal API request is made.
I was also just facing this issue and thanks to Jason's great answers I was able to make it work.
Just wanted to add that I found out that the Route also needs to be replaced. Otherwise Route::currentRouteName() will return the dispatched route later in the script.
More details to this can be found on my blog post.
I also did some tests for the stacking issue and called internal API methods repeatedly from within each other with this approach. It worked out just fine! All requests and routes have been set correctly.
If you want to invoke an internal API and pass parameters via an array (instead of query string), you can do like this:
$request = Request::create("/api/cars", "GET", array(
"id" => $id,
"fields" => array("id","color")
));
$originalInput = Request::input();//backup original input
Request::replace($request->input());
$car = json_decode(Route::dispatch($request)->getContent());//invoke API
Request::replace($originalInput);//restore orginal input
Ref: Laravel : calling your own API

Preventing YQL from URL encoding a key

I am wondering if it is possible to prevent YQL from URL encoding a key for a datatable?
Example:
The current guardian API works with IDs like this:
item_id = "environment/2010/oct/29/biodiversity-talks-ministers-nagoya-strategy"
The problem with these IDs is that they contain slashes (/) and these characters should not be URL encoded in the API call but instead stay as they are.
So If I now have this query
SELECT * FROM guardian.content.item WHERE item_id='environment/2010/oct/29/biodiversity-talks-ministers-nagoya-strategy'
while using the following url defintion in my datatable
<url>http://content.guardianapis.com/{item_id}</url>
then this results in this API call
http://content.guardianapis.com/environment%2F2010%2Foct%2F29%2Fbiodiversity-talks-ministers-nagoya-strategy?format=xml&order-by=newest&show-fields=all
Instead the guardian API expects the call to look like this:
http://content.guardianapis.com/environment/2010/oct/29/biodiversity-talks-ministers-nagoya-strategy?format=xml&order-by=newest&show-fields=all
So the problem is really just that the / characters gets encoded as %2F which I don't want to happen in this case.
Any ideas on how this can be achieved?
You can also check the full datatable I am using:
http://github.com/spier/yql-tables/blob/master/guardian/guardian.content.item.xml
The URI-template expansions in YQL (e.g. {item_id}) only follow the version 3 spec. With version 4 it would be possible to simply (only slightly) change the expansion to do what you want, but alas not currently with YQL.
So, a solution. You could bring a very, very basic <execute> block into play: one which adds the item_id value to the path as needed.
<execute><![CDATA[
response.object = request.path(item_id).get().response;
]]></execute>
Finally, see the diff against your table (with a few other, minor tweaks to allow the above to work).