Any alternative suggestion (more kotlin idiom/functional approach) to extract the following string? ...

# codereview

[miqbaldc]

Any alternative suggestion (more kotlin idiom/functional approach) to extract the following string?

from:

<deeplink scheme>://jobs?category_id=asdf&employment_type=FULLTIME

into a query parameter (what I can think of atm was map):

mapOf(
   "category_id" to "asdf",
   "employment_type" to "FULLTIME"
)

my code attempts in 🧵

[miqbaldc]

val queries = "<deeplink scheme>://jobs?category_id=asdf&employment_type=FULLTIME"
                        .substringAfter("?")
                        // categorize it into list
                        .split("&")
                        .associate {
                            // "category_id" to "asdf"
                            it.substringBefore("=") to it.substringAfter("=")
                        }

[sbyrne]

I would be more worried about URL encoding issues than idiomatic Kotlin; I would use a library for this; e.g.: https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core-5.1.x/5.1.2/apidocs/org/apache/hc/core5/net/URIBuilder.html

[miqbaldc]

Turns out. The android.net.Uri has Uri.getQueryParameter("key") that more convenient in our case, instead of trying to manually parsing this

It also has Uri.getEncodedQuery