New type for queries with field filters #1
Description
I've found a bug with Spotify's API when adding field filters.
For example: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=artist:"order of the toad" album:"spirit man"&type=album,track&limit=5
The first item in the result looks like this:
{
"albums": {
"href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=artist%3A+%22order+of+the+toad%22+album%3A+%22spirit+man%22&type=album&offset=0&limit=5",
"items": [
{
"album_type": "album",
"artists": [
{
"external_urls": {
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0kZQLbj8h2SMVZHUJSbfBQ"
},
"href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/0kZQLbj8h2SMVZHUJSbfBQ",
"id": "0kZQLbj8h2SMVZHUJSbfBQ",
"name": "Jason Graves",
"type": "artist",
"uri": "spotify:artist:0kZQLbj8h2SMVZHUJSbfBQ"
}
],
"external_urls": {
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/album/1IamuMB8i2g2vEJKNv7NFC"
},
"name": "The Order: 1886 (Video Game Soundtrack)",
"release_date": "2015-02-16",
"release_date_precision": "day",
"total_tracks": 21,
"type": "album",
"uri": "spotify:album:1IamuMB8i2g2vEJKNv7NFC"
}
]
}After much prodding around in the dark, I found the fixed URL to look like this: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=artist%3A"order of the toad" album%3A"spirit man"&type=album,track&limit=5.
So only the colon needs to be escaped, and if anything else is escaped or any spaces are surrounding the colons, seemingly random results are returned.
This is really hard to remember, and developers will never remember which characters to escape or where spaces are allowed, so a new type should be introduced to stringify perfectly.