Urldecodecomponent() string formatter

[GraybeardCoder]

Wappler could use this formatter on both the front-end and back-end. @Apple put in a feature request in 2024 for the front-end and it's not marked as implemented.

On the backend, using urldecode() does not work to completely decode the URI string. In v6.8, the formatter in string.js looks like:

urldecode: function(str) {
        if (str == null) return str;

        return decodeURI(String(str));
    }

which fails to correctly decode a query parameter that has a reserved character in it:

; , / ? : @ & = + $ #

@GraybeardCoder

This is the problem: When decodeURI() sees %2C (the comma), it recognizes that the comma is a reserved character and it intentionally leaves it as %2C. The same is true for the ampersand (%26) and others. It assumes these characters are part of the URL's structure, not part of the data.

If we can't update the existing urldecode() formatter, can we get a new urldecodecomponent() formatter using: decodeURIComponent(String(str))