passing array to url node js

Question

I have an API http://studentresults.com/studentresults?studentname=xyz&date=dd/mm/yyyy

With the above url, I get JSON information w.r.t to student name on that date of examination. I can get the JSON information for single student by parsing url using node js. Now I have 15 students. How to get to all the information on that particular day of examination so that I create object such as

          {
               "date": dd/mm/yyyy
                 'studentresults': [
                  { 'studentname' = xyz , marks = 500 },
                  { 'studentname' = abc , marks = 525 },
                   so on
                  ]
           }

In the above url, by changing the student name we get information of one student details. if i need to get all the students details how it can be done ? instead of changing every time how can i pass a array of studentnames to url so that i can all the information at once ?

Are you wanting to include a list of names and date in your query string? — Josh C.
– Josh C., Commented Jul 30, 2014 at 13:56
I know it sounds awful, and actually looks awful, but you can use encodeURIComponents to get the json into your url directly — a-d
– a-d, Commented Jul 30, 2014 at 13:57
Is it your own API ? If you're not maintening this API, you can't pass en array if the doc don't allow you to do that. — Kevin Labécot
– Kevin Labécot, Commented Jul 30, 2014 at 14:25
@Josh C - do you want me to use in this way : querystringfy({studentname: ['xyz', 'abc' ... ]}); — user3801556
– user3801556, Commented Jul 30, 2014 at 14:26

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:57:10Z

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Assuming you can edit the api:

If you get url with "studentname" (one) and "date" get the desired student data.

url.com/studentresults?studentname=xyz&date=dd/mm/yyyy

Else if you get url with multiple studentnames then you need to check if "studentname" is an array.

url.com/studentresults?studentname=student1,student2&date=dd/mm/yyyy

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Else if you get only date then try getting all the results of the day.

url.com/studentresults?date=dd/mm/yyyy

If you can't edit then you must check the API for allowed parameters which can be passed.

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:57

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answered Jul 30, 2014 at 14:40

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4 Comments

Kevin Labécot Over a year ago

You can't recommend him to test on the fly. He's using an API, he must send data in an expected format that we can't know. He must read the doc of this API.

Renārs Vilnis Over a year ago

Your right. I assumed it's his own API, that he can modify, because he mentioned Node.js in the title.

Kevin Labécot Over a year ago

yes... that was my question too. He answered above, it's not his API.

Renārs Vilnis Over a year ago

My bad, i am blind, didn't see "2 more comments" button.

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