Allow callers to disable PHP/Rails style parameter mungeing in querystring.stringify

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/querystring.js b/lib/querystring.js
index 83e0a0f85e..df19123351 100644
--- a/lib/querystring.js
+++ b/lib/querystring.js
@@ -21,10 +21,12 @@ var stack = [];
  * @param obj {Variant} any arbitrary value to convert to query string
  * @param sep {String} (optional) Character that should join param k=v pairs together. Default: "&"
  * @param eq  {String} (optional) Character that should join keys to their values. Default: "="
+ * @param munge {Boolean} (optional) Indicate whether array/object params should be munged, PHP/Rails-style. Default: true
  * @param name {String} (optional) Name of the current key, for handling children recursively.
  * @static
  */
-QueryString.stringify = function (obj, sep, eq, name) {
+QueryString.stringify = function (obj, sep, eq, munge, name) {
+  munge = typeof(munge) == "undefined" ? true : munge;
   sep = sep || "&";
   eq = eq || "=";
   if (isA(obj, null) || isA(obj, undefined) || typeof(obj) === 'function') {
@@ -37,9 +39,9 @@ QueryString.stringify = function (obj, sep, eq, name) {
   }
   if (isA(obj, [])) {
     var s = [];
-    name = name+'[]';
+    name = name+(munge ? '[]' : '');
     for (var i = 0, l = obj.length; i < l; i ++) {
-      s.push( QueryString.stringify(obj[i], sep, eq, name) );
+      s.push( QueryString.stringify(obj[i], sep, eq, munge, name) );
     }
     return s.join(sep);
   }
@@ -59,7 +61,7 @@ QueryString.stringify = function (obj, sep, eq, name) {
   for (var i = 0, l = keys.length; i < l; i++) {
     var key = keys[i];
     var n = begin + key + end;
-    s.push(QueryString.stringify(obj[key], sep, eq, n));
+    s.push(QueryString.stringify(obj[key], sep, eq, munge, n));
   }
 
   stack.pop();