Setting query string using Fetch GET request

Question

I'm trying to use the new Fetch API:

I am making a GET request like this:

var request = new Request({
  url: 'http://myapi.com/orders',
  method: 'GET'
});
fetch(request);

However, I'm unsure how to add a query string to the GET request. Ideally, I want to be able to make a GET request to a URL like:

'http://myapi.com/orders?order_id=1'

In jQuery I could do this by passing {order_id: 1} as the data parameter of $.ajax(). Is there an equivalent way to do that with the new Fetch API?

Answer 1

Update March 2017:

URL.searchParams support has officially landed in Chrome 51, but other browsers still require a polyfill.

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The official way to work with query parameters is just to add them onto the URL. From the spec, this is an example:

var url = new URL("https://geo.example.org/api"),
    params = {lat:35.696233, long:139.570431}
Object.keys(params).forEach(key => url.searchParams.append(key, params[key]))
fetch(url).then(/* … */)

However, I'm not sure Chrome supports the searchParams property of a URL (at the time of writing) so you might want to either use a third party library or roll-your-own solution.

Update April 2018:

With the use of URLSearchParams constructor you could assign a 2D array or a object and just assign that to the url.search instead of looping over all keys and append them

var url = new URL('https://sl.se')

var params = {lat:35.696233, long:139.570431} // or:
var params = [['lat', '35.696233'], ['long', '139.570431']]

url.search = new URLSearchParams(params).toString();

fetch(url)

Sidenote: URLSearchParams is also available in NodeJS

const { URL, URLSearchParams } = require('url');