$http doesn't support nested params for GET

[jr314159]

We have an API that expects nested parameters. We'd previously been communicating with this API fine using $.ajax (which uses $.param), but Angular's $http uses a buildUrl method that is not recursive so it doesn't work with nested objects.

Two possible solutions for us right now are to use POST instead, or to manually construct a flat object with name value pairs first using $.param and then pass that into $http like so:

        obj = {}
        _.map $.param(params).replace(/\+/g, "%20").split("&"), (pair) ->
          [name, value] = _.map(pair.split("="), (i) -> decodeURIComponent(i))
          obj[name] = value
        obj

This is obviously not ideal. Is it possible to get Angular to use a more jQuery-like param serializing method for GET requests?

[pkozlowski-opensource]

Let's move discussion about serialization of query params to #3740, which is about the same issue.