From 547a573e990e6672da0e7764197dc37db3a67710 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Mulligan <mmulligan03@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 22:47:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Added check for if key is provided in request params

Signed-off-by: Matt Mulligan <mmulligan03@gmail.com>
---
 .../search/StackOverflowQuestionsCollatorFactory.ts | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/stack-overflow-backend/src/search/StackOverflowQuestionsCollatorFactory.ts b/plugins/stack-overflow-backend/src/search/StackOverflowQuestionsCollatorFactory.ts
index 15bf34a71c..45261ce546 100644
--- a/plugins/stack-overflow-backend/src/search/StackOverflowQuestionsCollatorFactory.ts
+++ b/plugins/stack-overflow-backend/src/search/StackOverflowQuestionsCollatorFactory.ts
@@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ export class StackOverflowQuestionsCollatorFactory
 
   private constructor(options: StackOverflowQuestionsCollatorFactoryOptions) {
     this.baseUrl = options.baseUrl;
+    this.apiKey = options.apiKey;
     this.requestParams = options.requestParams;
     this.logger = options.logger;
-    this.apiKey = options.apiKey;
   }
 
   static fromConfig(
@@ -102,7 +102,16 @@ export class StackOverflowQuestionsCollatorFactory
       );
     }
 
-    this.logger.warn(`${JSON.stringify(this.requestParams)}`);
+    try {
+      if (Object.keys(this.requestParams).indexOf('key') >= 0) {
+        this.logger.warn(
+          'The API Key should be passed as a seperate param to bypass encoding',
+        );
+        delete this.requestParams.key;
+      }
+    } catch (e) {
+      this.logger.error(`Caught ${e}`);
+    }
 
     const params = qs.stringify(this.requestParams, {
       arrayFormat: 'comma',