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@function deparam Takes a string of name value pairs and returns a Object literal that represents those params. @param {String} params a string like <code>"foo=bar&person[age]=3"</code> @return {Object} A JavaScript Object that represents the params: { foo: "bar", person: { age: "3" } } https://github.com/jupiterjs/jquerymx/blob/master/lang/str…
function deparam(params) {
if (!params || !paramTest.test(params)) {
return {};
}
var data = {},
pairs = params.split('&'),
current;
for (var i = 0; i < pairs.length; i++) {
current = data;
var pair = pairs[i].split('=');
// if we find foo=1+1=2
if (pair.length != 2) {
pair = [pair[0], pair.slice(1).join("=")]
}
var key = decodeURIComponent(pair[0].replace(plus, " ")),
value = decodeURIComponent(pair[1].replace(plus, " ")),
parts = key.match(keyBreaker);
for (var j = 0; j < parts.length - 1; j++) {
var part = parts[j];
if (!current[part]) {
// if what we are pointing to looks like an array
current[part] = digitTest.test(parts[j + 1]) || parts[j + 1] == "[]" ? [] : {}
}
current = current[part];
}
lastPart = parts[parts.length - 1];
if (lastPart == "[]") {
current.push(value)
} else {
current[lastPart] = value;
}
}
return data;
};
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