export function stringify()

in internal/qs/stringify.ts [358:438]

• 66 lines of code
• 16 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

export function stringify(object: any, opts: StringifyOptions = {}) {
  let obj = object;
  const options = normalize_stringify_options(opts);

  let obj_keys: PropertyKey[] | undefined;
  let filter;

  if (typeof options.filter === "function") {
    filter = options.filter;
    obj = filter("", obj);
  } else if (is_array(options.filter)) {
    filter = options.filter;
    obj_keys = filter;
  }

  const keys: string[] = [];

  if (typeof obj !== "object" || obj === null) {
    return "";
  }

  const generateArrayPrefix = array_prefix_generators[options.arrayFormat];
  const commaRoundTrip = generateArrayPrefix === "comma" &&
    options.commaRoundTrip;

  if (!obj_keys) {
    obj_keys = Object.keys(obj);
  }

  if (options.sort) {
    obj_keys.sort(options.sort);
  }

  const sideChannel = new WeakMap();
  for (let i = 0; i < obj_keys.length; ++i) {
    const key = obj_keys[i]!;

    if (options.skipNulls && obj[key] === null) {
      continue;
    }
    push_to_array(
      keys,
      inner_stringify(
        obj[key],
        key,
        // @ts-expect-error
        generateArrayPrefix,
        commaRoundTrip,
        options.allowEmptyArrays,
        options.strictNullHandling,
        options.skipNulls,
        options.encodeDotInKeys,
        options.encode ? options.encoder : null,
        options.filter,
        options.sort,
        options.allowDots,
        options.serializeDate,
        options.format,
        options.formatter,
        options.encodeValuesOnly,
        options.charset,
        sideChannel,
      ),
    );
  }

  const joined = keys.join(options.delimiter);
  let prefix = options.addQueryPrefix === true ? "?" : "";

  if (options.charsetSentinel) {
    if (options.charset === "iso-8859-1") {
      // encodeURIComponent('&#10003;'), the "numeric entity" representation of a checkmark
      prefix += "utf8=%26%2310003%3B&";
    } else {
      // encodeURIComponent('✓')
      prefix += "utf8=%E2%9C%93&";
    }
  }

  return joined.length > 0 ? prefix + joined : "";
}