navigate route with querystring

Will Backbone.Router.navigate set test to true:

var test = false;

var Router = Backbone.Router.extend({
  routes: {
    'posts': 'showPosts'
  },
  showPosts: function () {
    test = true;
  }
});

router = new Router();
Backbone.history.start();

router.navigate('posts?foo=3', {trigger: true});

assert.ok(test);

Eg, will posts?foo=3 fragment will match the posts route by default, or do I have to set another route for that, for example: posts?*querystring?

Thank you

PS: I know there exist the backbone-query-parameters but I want to know just for backbone.

backbone.js backbone-routing

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Backbone docs:

Routes can contain parameter parts, :param, which match a single URL component between slashes; and splat parts *splat, which can match any number of URL components.

If you still want to keep the functionality without the matching you can define two routes

routes: {
  'posts': 'showPosts',
  'posts?*querystring': 'showPosts'
}

showPosts: function(querystring) {
  if (querystring) {
    // here you can parse your querystring, for your case the querystring variable is 
    // 'foo=3'
  }
  //here you'll show posts according to the querystring (or lack thereof)      
}

answered 2012-07-26T14:34:14.007

navigate route with querystring

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