AngularJS: avoid url encoding with $location
angularjs
Solution
Excuse the late reply, but I struck a similar predicament myself and thought I'd offer advice.
In short, if you intend on using `$location.search` you cannot avoid the URL being encoded.
If you take a look at the Angular source, `location.js` specifically, you'll notice that the functions return composed URLs (i.e. `LocationHtml5Url`) all rely on another function call named `toKeyValue`, which will encode all key-value pairs whenever they are set.
Furthermore, in the example use case you've provided, you don't need the equals inside your key. When `$location.search` is called with two parameters, they are treated as a key-value pair by Angular.
If you need to make use of the location URL after it has been encoded, you could always call `decodeURIComponent`.
Problem
I notice that when I passed a parameter that is an array to $location.search(), it was encoded as in the following example $location.path('/somePath').search('ids[]=', [1, 2, 3]); becomes /somePath?ds%5B%5D=1&ds%5B%5D=2&ds%5B%5D=3 Is there a way to avoid the url encoding?