URL in parameter shouldn't be escaped

[piotr-yuxuan]

According to the doc:

Creates a URI instance from a variable list of arguments and an optional parameter map as the last argument. For example:

(url "/group/" 4 "/products" {:page 9})
  => "/group/4/products?page=9"

So I did:

(hiccup.core/html
  [:div [:script {:type "application/javascript"
                  :src (hiccup.util/url "/group/" 4 "/products" 
                                        {:page 9 :num_ber 3})}]])
;; => "<div><script src=\"/group/4/products?page=9&amp;num_ber=3\" type=\"application/javascript\"></script></div>"

This is with [hiccup "1.0.5"] as shown in the README.md. I've had some attempts with hiccup2 alpha2, to no avails.

Any suggestion?

[weavejester]

Why do you think attributes shouldn't contain character entities?

[piotr-yuxuan]

How can you provide a URL with query parameters without plain & as a separator?
Example: key=value&other-key=value

Thanks you very much for your so prompt reply, I do appreciate it ;-) I've been stumbling upon this annoying behaviour for some time.

[piotr-yuxuan]

Exemple with hiccup2:

(hiccup2.core/html {:mode :html
                    :escape-strings? false}
                   [:div
                    [:script {:type "application/javascript"
                              :src (hiccup2.core/raw "/group/4/products?page=9&num_ber=3")}]])
;; => #object[hiccup.util.RawString
;;            0x77ac2e08
;;            "<div><script src=\"/group/4/products?page=9&amp;num_ber=3\" type=\"application/javascript\"></script></div>"]

[weavejester]

How can you provide a URL with query parameters without plain & as a separator?

You use &, as Hiccup does. Character entities in attributes are resolved when rendering the page, so this link:

<a href="http://example.com/search?q=foo&amp;page=1">foo</a>

Will link to http://example.com/search?q=foo&page=1.

You can also use & directly, but you need to ensure that you don't accidentally include a character entity. Overall it's safer just to escape all unsafe characters as the browser will resolve them when the DOM is parsed.

[piotr-yuxuan]

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