too many filters results in urls that are too long

[haggertypat]

As discussed here and here, IE doesn't support urls that are longer than about 2000 characters, and Apache's limit is 4000.

Even in Firefox I am experiencing strange behavior with 3500 character urls.

SonataAdmin urls get long very quickly. Each filter uses at least 33 characters: &filter[][type]=&filter[][value]=. Assume an average field name length of 8 and this number is close to 50 for each filter. This limits us to only 40 filters. Take into account domain names, extra characters for date filters, base SonataAdmin urls, and SonataAdmin programmers adding custom url parameters and this number is much lower.

40 or even 35 filters may seem high but I have an application in development with over 50.

[wjohnald]

Is there some way to change the filter form method to "POST"

[haggertypat]

GET is more appropriate. Could we strip out unused filters from the url?

With this many filters, the interface itself can get pretty clunky. Something where you add the filters you want to use would be elegant, and resolve this issue:

http://rails-admin-tb.herokuapp.com/admin/division

[rande]

rename filer => f, type => t and value => v can save 11 chars by filter, this can be an easy task and limit the current issue

[haggertypat]

Renaming filter/value/type was going to cut down the character count by only about 25% (which wasn't enough) and the use of the three keys was spread across the project a bit, so I found another solution.

As a temporary solution for those who might run into the problem. I just remove the filters without values with jQuery on form submit. I'm probably an edge case here with 50 filters, but thought I'd share my workaround.

[webdevilopers]

👍

[core23]

This issue is very old. Can you please check this against the latest stable / master version?

Feel free to reopen, if the error still exists.

A PR would be welcome if you reopen this issue.

[webdevilopers]

Sorry, but I'm no longer working on this project.