Parse and Modify a Query String in .Net Core

Parse and modify a query string in .NET Core

If you are using ASP.NET Core 1 or 2, you can do this with Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebUtilities.QueryHelpers in the Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebUtilities package.

If you are using ASP.NET Core 3.0 or greater, WebUtilities is now part of the ASP.NET SDK and does not require a separate nuget package reference.

To parse it into a dictionary:

var uri = new Uri(context.RedirectUri);
var queryDictionary = Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebUtilities.QueryHelpers.ParseQuery(uri.Query);

Note that unlike ParseQueryString in System.Web, this returns a dictionary of type IDictionary<string, string[]> in ASP.NET Core 1.x, or IDictionary<string, StringValues> in ASP.NET Core 2.x or greater, so the value is a collection of strings. This is how the dictionary handles multiple query string parameters with the same name.

If you want to add a parameter on to the query string, you can use another method on QueryHelpers:

var parametersToAdd = new System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string, string> { { "resource", "foo" } };
var someUrl = "http://www.google.com";
var newUri = Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebUtilities.QueryHelpers.AddQueryString(someUrl, parametersToAdd);

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Using .net core 2.2 you can get the query string using

var request = HttpContext.Request;
var query = request.Query;
foreach (var item in query){
   Debug.WriteLine(item) 
}

You will get a collection of key:value pairs - like this

[0] {[companyName, ]}
[1] {[shop, ]}
[2] {[breath, ]}
[3] {[hand, ]}
[4] {[eye, ]}
[5] {[firstAid, ]}
[6] {[eyeCleaner, ]}

Need to modify Query Parameter before sending to API in core 2

In foreach loop a collection is read-only you can't modify it.

You could copy ActionArguments collection before iterating through it by calling ToList:

foreach (KeyValuePair<string, object> parameter in context.ActionArguments.ToList())
{
    context.ActionArguments[parameter.Key] = Security.Decrypt(parameter.Value.ToString());
}

How to parse a query string into a NameValueCollection in .NET

There's a built-in .NET utility for this: HttpUtility.ParseQueryString

// C#
NameValueCollection qscoll = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(querystring);

' VB.NET
Dim qscoll As NameValueCollection = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(querystring)

You may need to replace querystring with new Uri(fullUrl).Query.

Append values to query string

You could use the HttpUtility.ParseQueryString method and an UriBuilder which provides a nice way to work with query string parameters without worrying about things like parsing, URL encoding, ...:

string longurl = "http://somesite.example/news.php?article=1&lang=en";
var uriBuilder = new UriBuilder(longurl);
var query = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(uriBuilder.Query);
query["action"] = "login1";
query["attempts"] = "11";
uriBuilder.Query = query.ToString();
longurl = uriBuilder.ToString();
// "http://somesite.example:80/news.php?article=1&lang=en&action=login1&attempts=11"

How to build a query string for a URL in C#?

If you look under the hood the QueryString property is a NameValueCollection. When I've done similar things I've usually been interested in serialising AND deserialising so my suggestion is to build a NameValueCollection up and then pass to:

using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Collections.Specialized;

private string ToQueryString(NameValueCollection nvc)
{
    var array = (
        from key in nvc.AllKeys
        from value in nvc.GetValues(key)
            select string.Format(
                "{0}={1}",
                HttpUtility.UrlEncode(key),
                HttpUtility.UrlEncode(value))
        ).ToArray();
    return "?" + string.Join("&", array);
}

I imagine there's a super elegant way to do this in LINQ too...

Replace item in querystring

Maybe you could use the System.UriBuilder class. It has a Query property.

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