Mongo query in FlowRouter route

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1

Hello. I have a collection of items.

The app is just make query on collection and render selected items. I want just qet query from route param and directly pass it to find:

Template.itemsList.helpers({
  items: () => {
    let filter = FlowRouter.getQueryParam('filter') || {};
    return items.find(filter);
  }
}

The one of valid query is:

items.find({'maps.10': true})

So let’s say I want to render such an items. I set params (on checkbox click e.g.):

FlowRouter.setQueryParams({filter: {'maps.11': true}})

URL now looks like what we want:

http://localhost:3000/?filter%5Bmaps.11%5D=true

I expect then when i do FlowRouter.getQueryParam('filter') I’ll get {'maps.11': true}. But let’s try:

FlowRouter.getQueryParam('filter')
//["true"]

What am i doing wrong? How can I pass object to URL and then get the same object?

2

You shouldnt do that in Template. Have a look at the examples from README

and check subscription management with flowrouter

3

Collection is too little I publish it fully. Then queries occur on the client.

The question is "How to pass to query param object like {'maps.11': true} and then get the same object.

4

well, it is not suppose to take object as argument.
You can try serialize it and pass that as argument.
Than deserialize it to use in find.

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5

I think if you want to nest parameters in that way you should encode/decode it in someway, perhaps with jQuery.param()

6

Just tried shock's advice and it works fine for now. Thanks.

7

See my entries from this post:

FlowRouter.route('/about/', {
  yourObject: { maps: true },
  yourFunc: function() { return { maps: true } },
  action: function(params) {
    BlazeLayout.render('appLayout', {app_data: { title: 'Hello World'} });
  }
});

and access in Template via:

FlowRouter.current().route.options.myObject / myFunc()

But you also just send the param value through the route if that is the only param.