query string in $resource url - angularjs

Question

my service has to use a query string due to limitations on the server that runs classic ASP:
angular
.module('myServices', ['ng', 'ngResource'])
.factory('Item', ['$resource',
function ($resource) {
return $resource('/api/?p=item/:id');
}]);
and I want to add extra query string parameters to it:
Item.query({test: 123}, on_success, on_error);
but the resulting url is
/api/?p=item?test=123
apparently there is a bug, but how to get around it?
EDIT: filed this at https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/1511

Answer 1

You can use resource parameters. If you haven't specified placeholders in the path, they would automatically be converted into query string params. Like that:
angular
.module('myServices', ['ng', 'ngResource'])
.factory('Item', [
'$resource',
function ($resource) {
return $resource('/api');
}]);
Item.query({p: 'item/1'});
This would result in a request to /api?p=item/1.
P.S.
I suppose you already know that, but you don't like it. But I still think this is the correct way in your case. Considering the bad API design you are dealing with that back-end you could wrap the AngularJS resources with another service which does this for you.

Answer 2

var deferred = $q.defer();
api.api_name.query({
'param':param_value
},
function(response) {
deferred.resolve(response);
},
function(response) {
deferred.reject(response);
}
);
//
angular
.module('module_name')
.factory('api',function($resource){
var api_var={};
api_var.api_name = $resource('url?param_key=:param', {
param: '#param'
}, {
'query': {
method: 'get'
}
});
return api_var;
});