How to obtain the query string in a GET with Java HttpServer/HttpExchange?

Question

I am trying to create a simple HttpServer in Java to handle GET requests, but when I try to get the GET parameters for a request I noticed the HttpExchange class does not have a

Answer 1

Building on the answer by @anon01, this is how to do it in Groovy:

Map getQueryParameters( HttpExchange httpExchange )
{
    def query = httpExchange.getRequestURI().getQuery()
    return query.split( '&' )
            .collectEntries {
        String[] pair = it.split( '=' )
        if (pair.length > 1)
        {
            return [(pair[0]): pair[1]]
        }
        else
        {
            return [(pair[0]): ""]
        }
    }
}

And this is how to use it:

def queryParameters = getQueryParameters( httpExchange )
def parameterA = queryParameters['A']