[ask] Working With Query String

[yllumi]

I am using query strings in my application, for example:
myapp.text/checkout?token=qwertyuiop
However, when I call the redirect or navigate code, i,e. window.PineconeRouter.context.navigate('/cart'), this query string keeps getting carried over. I understand that in some cases, we might want the query string to persist across path changes. However, how can we redirect or navigate to another path without carrying the query string?

[rehhouari]

Hey, thanks for pointing it out. currently there is no way for that. I think it's possible to make it a global setting to never pass the query string, would that be good?
For now, where are you calling navigate('cart')? if it's inside a handler or another function how about clearing the query once it's processed?

[yllumi]

How to clear the query? Is it using window.location? I really want to clear the query and perhaps navigate() or redirect() would do that.

[rehhouari]

yes, query is just window.location.search.substring(1) so clearing it will reload the page. so I'll try adding option to not pass it manually and also through a setting

[rehhouari]

You can try the 5.2.1 update and let me know if it works!

see this section for documentation

[rehhouari]

and as a side note, since I've made this a few years ago I forgot why I made it so the query string passes over by default, and now I can't think of a use case.
I was going to make it not carry over by default but that would be a breaking change, which i'll look into in a later update maybe. So for now the global setting should be sufficient.

[yllumi]

Wow, this is great news! Thank you for making this effort.