Related problem

• There is no built-in counterpart to url build-query for splitting a query string (though this is not hard to implement in nushell)

• url join's handling of parameters don't match url build-query, specifically it doesn't support lists

• url parse can create records with duplicate keys

  > "http://host?a=1&b=2&b=3" | url parse | get params
  ╭───┬───╮
  │ a │ 1 │
  │ b │ 2 │
  │ b │ 3 │
  ╰───┴───╯

Describe the solution you'd like

• provide url split-query either as a built-in or as a std function

  def "url split-query" []: [string -> table<key: string, value: string>] {
    split row '&'
    | split column '=' -n 2 key value
    | update cells { url decode }
  }

• url join and url build-query should use a common implementation.

• url parse's params should either:

  • group the same keys into a list.
  • instead of a record, be a key-value table. (table<key: string, value: string>)

  second option seems preferable as it would preserve order of parameters, which might carry meaning in different APIs

• if url parse | get params returns a table<key:string, value:string>, url join should also support the same in its input.

Describe alternatives you've considered

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Additional context and details

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