From 46101928bdf2022f0da41d16d33451c3d868901b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Pedro=20J=2E=20Est=C3=A9banez?= <pedrojrulez@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 13:09:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Enhance HTTPClient.query_string_from_dict()

(cherry picked from commit 8d8e9d54c859625277c7de977b361165c09b06b1)
---
 core/io/http_client.cpp    | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 doc/classes/HTTPClient.xml |  6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core/io/http_client.cpp b/core/io/http_client.cpp
index 4d72f744e15..9e301ccac59 100644
--- a/core/io/http_client.cpp
+++ b/core/io/http_client.cpp
@@ -618,7 +618,27 @@ String HTTPClient::query_string_from_dict(const Dictionary &p_dict) {
 	String query = "";
 	Array keys = p_dict.keys();
 	for (int i = 0; i < keys.size(); ++i) {
-		query += "&" + String(keys[i]).http_escape() + "=" + String(p_dict[keys[i]]).http_escape();
+		String encoded_key = String(keys[i]).http_escape();
+		Variant value = p_dict[keys[i]];
+		switch (value.get_type()) {
+			case Variant::ARRAY: {
+				// Repeat the key with every values
+				Array values = value;
+				for (int j = 0; j < values.size(); ++j) {
+					query += "&" + encoded_key + "=" + String(values[j]).http_escape();
+				}
+				break;
+			}
+			case Variant::NIL: {
+				// Add the key with no value
+				query += "&" + encoded_key;
+				break;
+			}
+			default: {
+				// Add the key-value pair
+				query += "&" + encoded_key + "=" + String(value).http_escape();
+			}
+		}
 	}
 	query.erase(0, 1);
 	return query;
diff --git a/doc/classes/HTTPClient.xml b/doc/classes/HTTPClient.xml
index 5627f585e4f..3f0668ba0f8 100644
--- a/doc/classes/HTTPClient.xml
+++ b/doc/classes/HTTPClient.xml
@@ -111,6 +111,12 @@
 				String queryString = httpClient.query_string_from_dict(fields)
 				returns:= "username=user&amp;password=pass"
 				[/codeblock]
+				Furthermore, if a key has a null value, only the key itself is added, without equal sign and value. If the value is an array, for each value in it a pair with the same key is added.
+				[codeblock]
+				var fields = {"single": 123, "not_valued": null, "multiple": [22, 33, 44]}
+				String queryString = httpClient.query_string_from_dict(fields)
+				returns:= "single=123&amp;not_valued&amp;multiple=22&amp;multiple=33&amp;multiple=44"
+				[/codeblock]
 			</description>
 		</method>
 		<method name="read_response_body_chunk">