avoid rearrange query parameters

[miccycn]

Avoid rearrange query parameters.
Sorting and rearranging them will cost a new request,
and make some troubles like generating token which is based on query string.

The issue is in:
util/query.js
function stringifyQuery()

unacquainted with jasmine :(

[fnlctrl]

Please be more specific about the problem you are facing.
What exactly does Sorting and rearranging them will cost a new request mean?
What trouble would be made in generating token which is based on query string?

Query parameters are actually Key-value pairs, so they don't have the notion of 'order'. If your code depends on their order (which they don't have), you're probably doing it wrong.

[NadokaCiel]

What trouble would be made in generating token which is based on query string?

For example: when generating token,a full url path is needed.After token generated and return, the third-party platform will verify the consistency of url.
but ios and weixin will automatically add parameter such as "form" or "isapp"
before:
http://vote.timerchina.com/detailInfo?id=1
after share in weixin:
http://vote.timerchina.com/detailInfo?id=1&from=22
after enter page built with vue-router:
http://vote.timerchina.com/detailInfo?from=22&id=1
the user who enter page with this url will failed to pass validation when share it again
since the order doesn't matter,why sort them?
thanks for your attentionO(∩_∩)O

[fnlctrl]

Yet another example wechat stupidity 又一个中国特色的问题
Vue-router doesn't intentionally sort query params, it's just that it doesn't care about the initial order when re-stringifying them.
In such case where order of url parameters does matter, simply use dynamic segments instead of queries.
http://router.vuejs.org/en/essentials/dynamic-matching.html

[NadokaCiel]

谢谢您的回答，我知道该怎么调整了。

[miccycn]

That is obviously intention!!!
In unit test :
test/unit/specs/query.spec.js
There is a note:
// sorted alphabetically

About this issue, besides, we discussed a lot in weibo:
http://weibo.com/1219344334/EiKduopBX?type=comment

In such case,we very much regret that we can`t use dynamic segments instead of queries...

[fnlctrl]

@miccycn Oops, missed that part. Even if vue-router stopped sorting query keys, currently it still can't reliably preserve the initial order. It will have to remember the initial query to do so.

I don't have a weibo account, would you mind posting the discussion here? I'm very curious about the case where dynamic segments can't be used.

[miccycn]

This case is so complicated......
Let me copy our discussion.....

刘巍峰：
vue-router 2 会重排参数顺序，这算 Bug 还算 Feature 啊。微博的短链解析和卡片呈现，是根据 URL 来的，参数顺序变了，URL 就变了，这是个大坑。不光在微博，在微*信内，因为 SDK 的签名是用 URL 算的，所以时机把握不好就跪了。
工程师日常:
被微信的坑过
尤小右：
可以开个 issue
me：
其实就是那个sort()的问题，好奇是出于什么考虑要sort一下。
尤小右：
这个其实是为了防止 Object.keys 返回的顺序各平台可能不一致顺手加了一个... 删了测试能过的话就开 PR 吧

I have tried to delete sort() in util/query.js, and it would be OK like that.

[fnlctrl]

I don't see any reason dynamic segments cannot be used in the discussion..

Just deleting sort wouldn't be enough, since browsers doesn't loop over objects reliably with the same order.

[miccycn]

删了sort()后，我们测试过中国网民常用浏览器都没什么问题。

可能是我们哪些细节地方还没考虑到。你说的会出问题是比如哪些情况呢？之前因为没重排而出现 issue 的 case 我可以看看么？

动态路由匹配需要更改和加入新的路由，而且由于微博的业务复杂，要加的新路由数量也指数增加，不仅后端要跟着新加，我们之前使用的url也会作废。
如果不是自己当着练手玩、从0开始、啥都自己说了算的项目，
而是从一个复杂项目迁移出来，去新增路由实在不是明智之举。

[fnlctrl]

就像Evan之前说的一样，各个平台顺序是不能保证的，因为ECMA标准没有规定Object.keys()返回的顺序，全部依靠浏览器实现。{a:1, b:2, c:3}的遍历顺序可以是c, b, a，这是完全合法的。

跟Object一样，query string本身的设计就是键值对，没有顺序这个概念。RFC标准和W3C标准都没有规定对于所谓"顺序"的处理。对于当初设计成依赖query“顺序”的已有系统，那实在是比较遗憾。

不过，如果你们只考虑中国网民常用浏览器的话，也倒是可以删掉这个sort。因为大部分人不依赖query的“顺序”（也不应该依赖，任何有顺序的参数都应该使用dynamic segments），所以并不是一个breaking change。但还是要重申一下，这不能保证你的url在所有情况下一定能正常工作。保险的做法是记住上一个query的顺序，下一次序列化的时候按照这个顺序来。总之，欢迎提交PR。

[miccycn]

唉……这没办法，中国最大的两个网络社交媒体平台：微博和微信，都设计成了依赖query顺序了。

但是是否可以这么理解，不sort()是不可靠的，有一定的隐患，同样有一定概率会造成confusion。
而sort()使confusion的概率增加了。
如果是这样的话为啥要sort()呢？……

我提交过PR：
#925
但这不是不敢乱动vue-router的jasmine单测么… :-( …所以才来提issue。

[fnlctrl]

把那个测试项删掉就可以了。因为它是针对sort()的测试，不sort了就可以删掉咯。提PR的时候不用担心修改测试的问题，因为都是会经过review的 🙂

唉……这没办法，中国最大的两个网络社交媒体平台：微博和微信，都设计成了依赖query顺序了。

分享个网页还需要拿url去签名真的是中国特色，纯粹是用来恶心开发者的。单从签名的角度上说，url要保持一致(包括query的顺序)是可以理解的。所以为了适应这个需要签名的系统，开发应用的时候url用dynamic segments传参保持顺序是最稳妥的做法。因为query参数谁都可以随便改（比如微信会加个'from'之类的），而且没有标准规定要遵守原来的顺序。