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  • New Features

    • Improved handling of URL query parameters, including encoded characters, spaces, repeated parameters, and values containing equals signs.
    • Performance requests now work correctly when query strings are included.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid or incomplete query parameters are safely ignored.
    • Improved URL decoding and routing for REST and static-file requests.
    • Improved container health-check reliability when monitoring the API endpoint.

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The web server now parses and decodes URL query strings, routes by URL path, and passes parsed queries to performance handlers. Unit tests cover query parsing. CMake registers the tests when visualization is enabled. The Docker health check uses exec-form syntax.

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Web server query handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Query decoding and request routing
visualization/WebServer.h, visualization/WebServer.cpp
The server exposes query parsing at namespace scope, decodes + and percent-encoded components, filters malformed parameters, separates paths from queries, and passes queries to performance handlers.
Web server test integration
tests/unit/WebServerTests.cpp, CMakeLists.txt
Unit tests cover standard, empty, repeated, encoded, and malformed parameters. CMake builds and registers web_server_tests when visualization is enabled.

Docker health check

Layer / File(s) Summary
Health check command
Dockerfile
The health check uses exec-form curl syntax against /api/health.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fc25a

REST query parameters are still ignored by the request handler, so the intended query-string fix does not currently change REST behavior. Merge should wait until the parsed values are consumed or the limitation is explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant RestAPIServer
  participant parseQueryString
  participant PerformanceHandler
  Client->>RestAPIServer: HTTP request with path and query
  RestAPIServer->>parseQueryString: Parse and decode query
  parseQueryString-->>RestAPIServer: Decoded key/value pairs
  RestAPIServer->>PerformanceHandler: Handle path with parsed query
  PerformanceHandler-->>Client: HTTP response
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In `@visualization/WebServer.cpp`:
- Around line 909-921: Update handleRequest to parse the query string once
before dispatch, then pass typed query parameters to handlers that support
options instead of forwarding the raw query. In particular, change the
handleGetPerformance call and its implementation so documented parameters are
consumed and applied rather than discarded, while preserving existing behavior
for requests without query parameters.
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Comment on lines +909 to +921
auto path = extractPath(target);
auto queryPos = target.find('?');
auto query = queryPos == std::string::npos ? "" : target.substr(queryPos + 1);

if (target == "/api/v1/strategies") {
if (path == "/api/v1/strategies") {
return handleGetStrategies();
} else if (target.starts_with("/api/v1/strategies/") &&
target.ends_with("/performance")) {
} else if (path.starts_with("/api/v1/strategies/") &&
path.ends_with("/performance")) {
// Extract strategy ID
auto start = target.find("/api/v1/strategies/") + 19;
auto end = target.find("/performance");
auto strategyId = target.substr(start, end - start);
return handleGetPerformance(strategyId, "");
} else if (target == "/api/risk/state") {
auto start = path.find("/api/v1/strategies/") + 19;
auto end = path.find("/performance");
auto strategyId = path.substr(start, end - start);
return handleGetPerformance(strategyId, query);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Parse and consume the query before dispatch.

Line 921 passes the raw query string to handleGetPerformance. handleGetPerformance discards it at Line 971. Therefore, query parameters do not affect any REST response.

Parse the query once in handleRequest. Pass typed parameters to handlers that support query options. Consume the documented parameters in those handlers.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@visualization/WebServer.cpp` around lines 909 - 921, Update handleRequest to
parse the query string once before dispatch, then pass typed query parameters to
handlers that support options instead of forwarding the raw query. In
particular, change the handleGetPerformance call and its implementation so
documented parameters are consumed and applied rather than discarded, while
preserving existing behavior for requests without query parameters.

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chizy7 self-requested a review August 20, 2026 02:32
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Summary

Implement REST API query-string parsing and support query parameters on routed requests.

Changes

  • Added percent-encoded URL decoding.
  • Converted + characters to spaces.
  • Added support for:
    • Optional leading ?
    • Multiple &-separated parameters
    • Empty and valueless parameters
    • Values containing =
    • Duplicate keys with last-value-wins behavior
  • Skipped malformed percent-encoded parameters without throwing exceptions.
  • Updated request routing to separate paths from query strings.
  • Added focused WebServer regression tests.

Testing

  • Built the visualization target successfully.
  • Built web_server_tests successfully.
  • Ran the focused CTest suite successfully.
  • Result: 7 tests passed.

Notes

This change makes query parameters available to REST handlers. Endpoint-specific filtering, pagination, and time-range behavior remain separate follow-up work because the current handlers do not yet apply those parameters.

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Hey @chizy7 thanks for the PinnacleMM project! I’ve submitted a PR to parse the REST API query strings. Would appreciate your thoughts whenever you have a chance to review. Let me know if you have any questions!

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OoreFasawe force-pushed the fix/rest-query-parsing branch from 3c9e4a7 to 5e8f565 Compare August 20, 2026 02:52

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Thanks for this. I checked out the branch, built it, ran the test suite and hit the running server with curl. Query strings on the API endpoints used to fall through to the static file handler and 404, and now they route correctly, so the fix is real. A few small comments.

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[FEATURE] Implement URL query string parsing in REST API server

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