urlEncode - Encode a value for URL readiness
In order to transmit values within a URL, values should be URL encoded. In order to prepare data for further output, perhaps using Log Forwarders, URL encoding is a useful feature.
Syntax
Arguments
Name | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
string | string | true | The string to URL encode |
Example - URL encoding a string
Consider the following document:
{
"domain": "https://www.coralogix.com",
"path": "/home",
"query_string": "name=Tom Kosman&b=c&c=d"
}
We want to extract each query string parameter into its own object field, which will give us the ability to query on individual query string fields. We can do this using kv
.
The resulting document looks like this:
{
"domain":"https://www.coralogix.com",
"query_string":"a=b&b=c&c=d",
"path": "/home",
"query_string_parameters":{
"name":"Tom Kosman",
"b":"c",
"c":"d"
}
}
We can see that the parameter name
contains a space. We can fix this using urlEncode
:
This results in the following document:
{
"domain":"https://www.coralogix.com",
"query_string":"a=b&b=c&c=d",
"path": "/home",
"query_string_parameters":{
"name":"Tom%20Kosman",
"b":"c",
"c":"d"
}
}
Try it yourself
Open up your log explore screen, and paste in this dataprime query to see a working example of urlEncode
:
create query_string_parameters.name from 'Tom Kosman'
| choose query_string_parameters.name
| replace query_string_parameters.name with query_string_parameters.name.urlEncode()
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