FusionCharts Unable to Process Arguments Beyond First & - Blocker, Critital Bug

[rjurney]

I am creating a fusionchart with this code:

 

 

 

function loadCharts()

 

{

 

var myChart = new FusionCharts("/FusionCharts_Evaluation/Charts/MSCombiDY2D.swf", "myChartId", "900", "400", "0", "0");

 

myChart.setDataURL("/xml" + "?" + buildQuery());

 

myChart.render("chartdiv");

 

}

 

 

 

function buildQuery()

 

{

 

var str = $("form").serialize();

 

alert(str);

 

return str;

 

}

 

 

 

When I alert(str), in my own code, I see this valid query string with both arguments:

start_date=09%2F01%2F2009&end_date=09%2F24%2F2009

 

 

 

When I place an alert inside the FusionCharts.js setDataURL method, I see this valid url with both parameters there:

/xml?start_date=09%2F01%2F2009&end_date=09%2F24%2F2009

 

 

 

However, in Firebug I see that the actual url that the FusionChart widget (MSCombiDY2D.swf) is submitting is this:

http://localhost:4567/xml?start_date=09/01/2009&FCTime=126

 

 

 

Which is to say that the end_date parameter is gone. I have tried adding other parameters as well, and they are also removed.

 

 

 

This is a bug, it is an arbitrary limitation, and I require the ability to submit more than one argument in my dataUrls. Please fix promptly, or we will not be able to utilize fusioncharts in our application.

 

 

 

Thanks!

[rjurney]

It is actually even worse than this - I just tried packing multiple arguments into JSON, and sending those as a single argument. This is also scrubbed in the flash widget:

 

 

 

/xml?json=[{"name":"start_date","value":"09/01/2009"},{"name":"end_date","value":"09/24/2009"}]

 

 

 

to:

 

 

 

http://localhost:4567/xml?json=[{&FCTime=9

 

 

 

The escaped version does get through:

 

 

 

/xml?json=[{%22name%22:%22start_date%22,%22value%22:%2209/01/2009%22},{%22name%22:%22end_date%22,%22value%22:%2209/24/2009%22}]&FCTime=147'

Edited September 18, 2009 by Guest

[rjurney]

I've hacked around this, doing my own AJAX request and then using chart.setDataXML - but its annoying to have to do this, so please fix the issue if you can.

 

 

 

Thanks!

[Rahul Kumar]

Hi Rjurney,

 

Could you please replace all & (Ampersand) with %26 and try again?