How to get search params in custom routes

[slimes28]

Hello, Is this the only option to get search params in custom router or there is a better way? https://github.com/slackapi/bolt-js/issues/1325#issuecomment-1528326746

[WilliamBergamin]

Hi @slimes28 The following seems to be the simplest way to collect search params, the Bolt framework is tailored to interact with the Slack API which rarely uses these parameters

let urlParams: URLSearchParams = new URLSearchParams();
const params = req.url.split("?");
if (params.length > 1) {
  urlParams = new URLSearchParams(params[1]);
}

[zimeg]

🤔 Wondering if we might want to treat this as a possible enhancement such that these params can be accessed from the request object?

https://localhost:3000/greetings?name=you

const app = new App({
  token: process.env.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN,
  signingSecret: process.env.SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET,
  customRoutes: [
    {
      path: '/greetings',
      method: ['GET'],
      handler: (req, res) => {
        res.writeHead(200);
        res.end(`Hello ${req.query.name}!`);  // Hello you!
      },
    },
  ],
});

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[zimeg]

🤔 Still thinking this'll be a good future enhancement so updating the label. Having req.query set to an empty object and populated with parsed queries seems like expected behavior to me - similar to Express.js requests with defaults to the node:querystring.parse() or URLSearchParams parsing! For reference, here are current customRoutes handlers.

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