Add util.getParamsFromURL method to parse URL parameters.

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lib/util.js b/lib/util.js
index 4f3964e..d8da1e5 100644
--- a/lib/util.js
+++ b/lib/util.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 "use strict";
 // ==============================================================
 var {Cc,Ci} = require("chrome");
+var urlMod = require("url");
 
 /**
  * Function for the management of the prototypal inheritace
@@ -33,17 +34,40 @@ exports.heir = function heir(p) {
     return new F();
 };
 
+/**
+ * get parameters of URL as an object (name, value)
+ */
+var getParamsFromURL = exports.getParamsFromURL = function getParamsFromURL (url) {
+    if (!url || (url.toString().length === 0)) {
+        return null;
+    }
+    
+    if (!(url instanceof urlMod.URL)) {
+        url = new urlMod.URL(url.toString());
+    }
+
+    if (url.path === "/") {
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    var paramsArr = url.path.split("?")[1].split('&');
+    // get convert URL parameters to an Object
+    var params = {}, s = [];
+    paramsArr.forEach(function(par) {
+        s = par.split('=');
+        params[s[0]] = s[1];
+    });
+    return params;
+};
+
 exports.getBugNo = function getBugNo(url) {
-    var re = new RegExp(".*id=([0-9]+).*$");
-    var bugNo = null;
     if (!url) {
         throw new Error("Missing URL value!");
     }
-    var reResult = re.exec(url);
-    if (reResult && reResult[1]) {
-        bugNo = reResult[1];
+    var params = getParamsFromURL(url);
+    if (params && params.id) {
+        return parseInt(params.id, 10);
     }
-    return bugNo;
 };
 
 /**