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Utilities are provided in the utils the Utils global space. They are present in the context of the widget JavaScript file, but not in the template context by default (that can easily be remedied by returning it as part of getCustomTemplateParams though).

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A utility for handling query string parameters.

parse()

utilsUtils.queryParam.parse(/* no arguments */)

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var params = utilsUtils.queryParam.parse();
// returns a hash of parameters, example:
// {"q": "Apple"}
console.log(params.q);

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