Ignore unknown query parameters

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 # Change Log
 
+## [Unreleased][unreleased]
+
+### Changed
+
+* Automatically ignore unknown query parameters
+
+```bash
+# Before
+GET /products?author=typicode&foo=bar # []
+# After
+GET /products?author=typicode&foo=bar # [{...}, {...}]
+```
+
 ## [0.7.28][2015-09-09]
 
 ```bash

src/server/router/plural.js

@@ -63,6 +63,23 @@ module.exports = function (db, name) {
     delete req.query._embed
     delete req.query._expand
 
+    // Automatically delete query parameters that can't be found
+    // in the database
+    Object.keys(req.query).forEach(function (query) {
+      var arr = db(name).value()
+      for (var i in arr) {
+        if (
+          _.has(arr[i], query) ||
+          query === 'callback' ||
+          query === '_' ||
+          query.indexOf('_lte') !== -1 ||
+          query.indexOf('_gte') !== -1
+        ) return
+      }
+      delete req.query[query]
+    })
+
+
     if (q) {
 
       // Full-text search

test/server/plural.js

@@ -118,6 +118,14 @@ describe('Server', function () {
         .expect(new RegExp(db.comments[0].body)) // JSONP returns text
         .expect(200, done)
     })
+
+    it('should ignore unknown query parameters', function (done) {
+      request(server)
+        .get('/comments?foo=1&bar=2')
+        .expect('Content-Type', /json/)
+        .expect(db.comments)
+        .expect(200, done)
+    })
   })
 
   describe('GET /:resource?q=', function () {