improved construction of query string.

git-svn-id: https://hudson.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/trunk/hudson/main@30447 71c3de6d-444a-0410-be80-ed276b4c234a

core/src/main/java/hudson/model/Descriptor.java

@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ public abstract class Descriptor<T extends Describable<T>> implements Saveable {
         if(method==null)
             return NONE;
 
-        return singleQuote(getDescriptorUrl() +"/check"+capitalizedFieldName+"?") + buildParameterList(method, new StringBuilder());
+        return singleQuote(getDescriptorUrl() +"/check"+capitalizedFieldName) + buildParameterList(method, new StringBuilder()).append(".toString()");
     }
 
     /**
@@ -300,13 +300,13 @@ public abstract class Descriptor<T extends Describable<T>> implements Saveable {
                 if (name==null || name.length()==0)
                     continue;   // unknown parameter name. we'll report the error when the form is submitted.
 
-                if (query.length()>0)  query.append('+').append(singleQuote("&"));
+                if (query.length()==0)  query.append("+qs(this)");
 
                 if (name.equals("value")) {
                     // The special 'value' parameter binds to the the current field
-                    query.append('+').append(singleQuote("value=")).append("+toValue(this)");
+                    query.append(".addThis()");
                 } else {
-                    query.append('+').append(singleQuote(name+'=')).append("+toValue(findNearBy(this,'"+name+"'))");
+                    query.append(".nearBy('"+name+"')");
                 }
                 continue;
             }

war/resources/scripts/hudson-behavior.js

@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ function findNearBy(e,name) {
 }
 
 function controlValue(e) {
+    if (e==null)    return null;
     // compute the form validation value to be sent to the server
     var type = e.getAttribute("type");
     if(type!=null && type.toLowerCase()=="checkbox")
@@ -171,6 +172,38 @@ function toValue(e) {
     return encodeURIComponent(controlValue(e));
 }
 
+/**
+ * Builds a query string in a fluent API pattern.
+ * @param {HTMLElement} owner
+ *      The 'this' control.
+ */
+function qs(owner) {
+    return {
+        params : "",
+
+        append : function(s) {
+            if (this.params.length==0)  this.params+='?';
+            else                        this.params+='&';
+            this.params += s;
+            return this;
+        },
+
+        nearBy : function(name) {
+            var e = findNearBy(owner,name);
+            if (e==null)    return this;    // skip
+            return this.append(name+'='+toValue(e));
+        },
+
+        addThis : function() {
+            return this.append("value="+toValue(owner));
+        },
+
+        toString : function() {
+            return this.params;
+        }
+    };
+}
+
 // find the nearest ancestor node that has the given tag name
 function findAncestor(e, tagName) {
     do {