获取请求中的Laravel键值对

Question

I'm using Laravel 5.4 and Axios to make async requests to my backend and retrieve data based on the get request parameters of my api endpoint.

I can see in inspector I'm making the following request to the server:

https://website.com/api/users?page=1&sort=%7B%22fieldName%22:%22lname%22,%22order%22:%22asc%22%7D&filter=

Which decodes to:

https://website.com/api/users?page=1&sort={"fieldName":"lname","order":"asc"}&filter=

Looks like I can successfully get pieces of the query via:

return $request->query('sort');

which returns:

data:
    fieldName: "lname"
    order: "asc"

But when I use:

return $request->query('sort.fieldName');

I don't get anything. Should I not be using the dot notation? How do I get each key / value pair of the sort input? Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

I thought you could use dot notation, but at any rate you could try just converting it from json to an associative array.

$sort = json_decode($request->query('sort'), true);

This should then allow you to do something like, $sort[‘fieldName’]. The true parameter tells the decode to turn it into an associative array versus being returned an object.