Hi. How do you pass strings, which contains # or ?, to navController.navigate? Currently the text is...

# compose

[Giorgi]

Hi. How do you pass strings, which contains # or ?, to navController.navigate? Currently the text is treated as url, so if I have an id like username#123 then on second screen I receive only "username"

[Giorgi]

One idea I have is to encode this string as Base64 and decode it on the second screen, but this seems extra logic

[Giorgi]

Also asked here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78489374/compose-if-navhost-argument-contains-then-it-is-saved-partially-in-savedstat

[jw]

You URL encode them (i.e., percent escape)

[Ian Lake]

Don't do any of this, use the type safe APIs which just have a Serializable object with a string property and we'll do the rest: https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/navigation-compose-meet-type-safety-e081fb3cf2f8

[Giorgi]

thanks for repply, I will read it and try

[Giorgi]

man, this is one of this changes I want to stare at the code because it looks so nice

composable(
                "$PLAYER_STATS/{$PLAYER_TAG}/{$PLAYER_BACKGROUND}",
                arguments = listOf(navArgument(PLAYER_TAG) { type = NavType.StringType }),
            )

is now just

composable<PlayerStats> { }

[Giorgi]

🔥