Shields: Left and right label values as params?

[kevinSuttle]

?leftLabel=foo&rightLabel=bar <= Is this a thing? I swear I looked through the issues and couldn't find it.

If you try to double it up like the link param, it just concats a comma and the 2nd value to the left label.

[kevinSuttle]

To be clear, yes, I'm asking about the params. I realize you can just specify the right side with a dash.

[RedSparr0w]

pretty sure the only param is ?label=foo to change the left label and the only way to specify left & right label is https://img.shields.io/badge/<leftlabel>-<rightlabel>-<color>.svg

[jasonkarns]

This is rather frustrating when attempting to create a custom badge URL because it means the right-side can't be provided without some escaping.

I'm trying to generate custom badges where the right side is a semver version string, which can contain dashes. In order to account for the "normal" use of the dash as the -- separator, that requires the dashes be escaped (with another dash). This is rather difficult when the badge URL is being generated via simple shell scripts. :(

It would be preferable if all portions could be specified via query params, such that the status portion could be provided without needing to escape it (well, other than the URI escaping which is necessary regardless where in the URL that segment lives).

[paulmelnikow]

It's a good idea. I like the dashes as shorthand for simple badges, though they are not useful for complex things nor programmatic generation. We should keep the current URL scheme working, for backward compatibility, though how about we add a second one https://img.shields.io/badge.svg?… which pulls everything from the query string?

[paulmelnikow]

Let's track this in #2673.