Replace the %20 that means a space on iron router

Question

I'm trying to replace the %20 that means space on the url by another character,

Router.map(function () {
  this.route('promos', {
    path: '/:promo_name',
    waitOn: function(){
        return Meteor.subscribe("promo", this.params.promo_name);
    },
    data: function(){
      return Promociones.findOne({'metadata.nombrePromo': this.params.promo_name});
    }
  });
});

This is how I generate dynamic routes, and i get something like this http://padonde.mx/Pi%C3%B1a%20Colada%202x1 i want to replace the %20 by another character like - or +, is this possible on iron router?

Answer 1

This is actually an stander URL encoding, and its set by the browser not iron-router.

You can do this,

Where you insert the

'metadata.nombrePromo', add another field to the collection like

'metadata.nombrePromoReplace', and do this. i guess you have something like

var nombrePromo = $('#idElementPromo').val();, or a session or whatever you pass the value to the metadata

so based on that var nombrePromo do this.

var nombrePromoReplace = nombrePromo.replace(/\s+/g, '');

and now change the route.

Router.map(function () {
  this.route('promos', {
    path: '/:promo_name',
    waitOn: function(){
        return Meteor.subscribe("promo", this.params.promo_name);
    },
    data: function(){
      return Promociones.findOne({'metadata.nombrePromoReplace': this.params.promo_name});
    }
  });
});

Now when you navigate to /:promo_name, and if you added something like

i have blanks spaces

the route should be

/ihaveblankspaces

It should work.