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Zoho Deluge: Convert Map to URL Parameters

What?
A quick article on converting a Map (associative array with keys and values) into a URL string to pass as URL parameters.

How?
Let's first define a map:
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m_Payload = Map();
m_Payload.put("client_id","my-unique-client-id");
m_Payload.put("redirect_uri","https://www.joellipman.com");
m_Payload.put("response_type","code");
m_Payload.put("scope","my_api_scopes");
m_Payload.put("prompt","login");
  1.  m_Payload = Map(); 
  2.  m_Payload.put("client_id","my-unique-client-id"); 
  3.  m_Payload.put("redirect_uri","https://www.joellipman.com"); 
  4.  m_Payload.put("response_type","code"); 
  5.  m_Payload.put("scope","my_api_scopes"); 
  6.  m_Payload.put("prompt","login"); 
Great! What follows is the code I'm using to convert this:
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v_Endpoint = "https://api.joellipman.com/myapi";
l_UrlParams = List();
for each v_Key in m_Payload.keys()
{
	l_UrlParams.add(v_Key.toString() + "=" + m_Payload.get(v_Key));
}
info v_Endpoint + "?" + l_UrlParams.toString("&");

// yields https://api.joellipman.com/myapi?client_id=my-unique-client-id&redirect_uri=https://www.joellipman.com&response_type=code&scope=my_api_scopes&prompt=login
  1.  v_Endpoint = "https://api.joellipman.com/myapi"; 
  2.  l_UrlParams = List(); 
  3.  for each v_Key in m_Payload.keys() 
  4.  { 
  5.      l_UrlParams.add(v_Key.toString() + "=" + m_Payload.get(v_Key)); 
  6.  } 
  7.  info v_Endpoint + "?" + l_UrlParams.toString("&"); 
  8.   
  9.  // yields https://api.joellipman.com/myapi?client_id=my-unique-client-id&redirect_uri=https://www.joellipman.com&response_type=code&scope=my_api_scopes&prompt=login 

In Reverse
To have the reverse effect of converting a URL into a map, I'm using the following:
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v_ReturnedUrl = "https://api.joellipman.com/myapi?isAuthSuccessful=true&code=my_own_code&expires_in=299";
l_ReturnedUrlParts = v_ReturnedUrl.subString(v_ReturnedUrl.indexOf("?")+1).toList("&");
m_UrlParams = Map();
for each  r_Part in l_ReturnedUrlParts
{
	if(r_Part.contains("="))
	{
		l_ParamParts = r_Part.toList("=");
		m_UrlParams.put(l_ParamParts.get(0), l_ParamParts.get(1));
	}
}
  1.  v_ReturnedUrl = "https://api.joellipman.com/myapi?isAuthSuccessful=true&code=my_own_code&expires_in=299"; 
  2.  l_ReturnedUrlParts = v_ReturnedUrl.subString(v_ReturnedUrl.indexOf("?")+1).toList("&"); 
  3.  m_UrlParams = Map(); 
  4.  for each  r_Part in l_ReturnedUrlParts 
  5.  { 
  6.      if(r_Part.contains("=")) 
  7.      { 
  8.          l_ParamParts = r_Part.toList("="); 
  9.          m_UrlParams.put(l_ParamParts.get(0), l_ParamParts.get(1)); 
  10.      } 
  11.  } 
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