Do not URI encode when using httparty

Question

I have a request setup using httparty and would like to not have URI encoding take place. I have read that there is a class method available

query_string_normalizer proc { |query|
  query.map do |key, value|
    value.map {|v| "#{key}=#{v}"}
  end.join('&')
}

But I am unsure of how to use this in my current setup

url = 'https://url/here/report.json?'
query = { 'param1' => '125894',
          'param2' => 'yesterday',
          'param3' => 'about',
          'param4' => 'client',
          'parameters' => 'ns_ti:*',
          'user' => ENV['USERNAME'],
          'password' => ENV['PASSWORD']
}
response = HTTParty.get(url, query: query)
results = JSON.parse(response.body)

The issue here is that parameters gets encoded and gets sent as 'ns_ti%3A%2A' and I would like to avoid that.

Answer 1

Make your own wrapper for HTTParty and pass a proc to the normalizer that overrides the URI encoding.

app/config/intializers/rich_lewis_http.rb

.

class RichLewisHttp

  include HTTParty

  query_string_normalizer proc { |query|
    query.map do |key, value|
      [value].flatten.map {|v| "#{key}=#{v}"}.join('&')
    end.join('&')
  }

end

Then you can do...

response = RichLewisHttp.get(url, query: query)
results = JSON.parse(response.body)