Check if unassigned variable exists in Request.QueryString

Question

Within the context of an ASP.NET page, I can use Request.QueryString to get a collection of the key/value pairs in the query string portion of the URI.

For example, if I

Answer 1

Request.QueryString.GetValues(null) will get a list of keys with no values

Request.QueryString.GetValues(null).Contains("test") will return true

Answer 2

I use this.

if (Request.Params["test"] != null)
{
    //Is Set
}
else if(Request.QueryString.GetValues(null) != null && 
       Array.IndexOf(Request.QueryString.GetValues(null),"test") > -1)
{
    //Not set
}
else
{
    //Does not exist
}

Answer 3

I wrote an extension method to solve this task:

public static bool ContainsKey(this NameValueCollection collection, string key)
{
    if (collection.AllKeys.Contains(key)) 
        return true;

     // ReSharper disable once AssignNullToNotNullAttribute
    var keysWithoutValues = collection.GetValues(null);
    return keysWithoutValues != null && keysWithoutValues.Contains(key);
}

Answer 4

Request.QueryString.ToString().Contains("test")

This works in the special case where you're looking for a single querystring parameter, e.g. MyFile.aspx?test

For more complex, general, cases then other solutions would be better.

Answer 5

Request.QueryString is a NameValueCollection, but items are only added to it if the query string is in the usual [name=value]* format. If not, it is empty.

If your QueryString was of the form ?test=value, then Request.QueryString.AllKeys.Contains("test") would do what you want. Otherwise, you're stuck doing string operations on Request.Url.Query.