fix($http): don't encode URL query substring "null" to "+"

Fixes issue in encodeUriQuery used by $http and $resource that
treats null as a string and replaces the characters "null" with "+".

4 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/Angular.js b/src/Angular.js
index 5195489e..93e4f6af 100644
--- a/src/Angular.js
+++ b/src/Angular.js
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ function encodeUriQuery(val, pctEncodeSpaces) {
              replace(/%3A/gi, ':').
              replace(/%24/g, '$').
              replace(/%2C/gi, ',').
-             replace((pctEncodeSpaces ? null : /%20/g), '+');
+             replace(/%20/g, (pctEncodeSpaces ? '%20' : '+'));
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/ngResource/resource.js b/src/ngResource/resource.js
index eac77603..a05e3598 100644
--- a/src/ngResource/resource.js
+++ b/src/ngResource/resource.js
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ angular.module('ngResource', ['ng']).
         replace(/%3A/gi, ':').
         replace(/%24/g, '$').
         replace(/%2C/gi, ',').
-        replace((pctEncodeSpaces ? null : /%20/g), '+');
+        replace(/%20/g, (pctEncodeSpaces ? '%20' : '+'));
     }
 
     function Route(template, defaults) {
diff --git a/test/AngularSpec.js b/test/AngularSpec.js
index e734decf..c535bf12 100644
--- a/test/AngularSpec.js
+++ b/test/AngularSpec.js
@@ -415,6 +415,14 @@ describe('angular', function() {
       //encode ' ' as '%20' when a flag is used
       expect(encodeUriQuery('  ', true)).
         toEqual('%20%20');
+
+      //do not encode `null` as '+' when flag is used
+      expect(encodeUriQuery('null', true)).
+        toEqual('null');
+
+      //do not encode `null` with no flag
+      expect(encodeUriQuery('null')).
+        toEqual('null');
     });
   });
 
@@ -673,7 +681,7 @@ describe('angular', function() {
           toBe('<ng-abc x="2A">');
     });
   });
-  
+
   describe('startingTag', function() {
     it('should allow passing in Nodes instead of Elements', function() {
       var txtNode = document.createTextNode('some text');
diff --git a/test/ngResource/resourceSpec.js b/test/ngResource/resourceSpec.js
index bfed3082..768ffd77 100644
--- a/test/ngResource/resourceSpec.js
+++ b/test/ngResource/resourceSpec.js
@@ -122,6 +122,12 @@ describe("resource", function() {
     R.get({a: 'doh@fo o', ':bar': '$baz@1', '!do&h': 'g=a h'});
   });
 
+  it('should not encode string "null" to "+" in url params', function() {
+   var R = $resource('/Path/:a');
+   $httpBackend.expect('GET', '/Path/null').respond('{}');
+   R.get({a: 'null'});
+  });
+
   it('should allow relative paths in resource url', function () {
     var R = $resource(':relativePath');
     $httpBackend.expect('GET', 'data.json').respond('{}');