Question

I see an line of our code base in JavaScript to construct a query string:

    var queryParameters = "imagePath=" + encodeURIComponent(_image.source) + "&saveMode=" + saveMode + "&pageFolderId=" + pageFolderId + "&id=" + pageId + "&parent=" + parent;
    queryParameters += "&quality=" + sQuality.value + "&commands=" + commandQueue.Serialize();

is there a better way to write this?

Answer 1

If you are using jQuery, you could just use an object representing your query string options:

var queryParameters = jQuery.param({
    imagePath: _image.source,
    saveMode: saveMode,
    pageFolderId: pageId,
    // ...
});

jQuery will automatically encode the query string values, so you don’t need to call encodeURIComponent on _image.source. See for more info: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.param/