Is a get request with array of numbers valid

I'm just wanting to sent a bunch of ids in a get request and im not sure if its really valid - the request could be 20 or 50 ids so I don't think its ideal to have them all as query params?

If its valid, I am also getting a weird problem when i do $request-all() with an empty request body, when I then do count($request-all()) its always returning 1 , event if request is totally empty ?

The request body i'm trying in Postman test is simply [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] thanks

Snapey

4 years ago

Level 122

it's not an array, it's just a string which is why you only get one parameter from count

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makapaka

4 years ago

Level 7

@Snapey thank you - whats the proper way to send the array in the request body so it's recognised as array?

jlrdw

4 years ago

Level 75

You can send comma separated then use split on the back end.

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CodeCanyon

4 years ago

Level 1

You can try this as a query parameter to GET request.

Passing a serialize array.

Your route will be like this:

Route::get('/sample_route/{ids}', 'TestController@index');

In browser/api tool you need to pass a serialize array.

$array = [1,5,7,8]; $ser_arr = serialize($array);

/sample_route/$ser_arr

In the controller get the values like this and test.

class TestController extends Controller
{
    public function index($ids)
    {
        $unser_arr = unserialize($ids);
        dd(print_r($unser_arr));
    }
}