How to get query params in nextjs api route?

[rohitkrishna094]

I have an api endpoint DELETE /api/cards?fileKey=xyz and I have this defined in my app router's api/cards/route.ts file. it looks something like this

export async function DELETE(request: NextApiRequest) {
// how to access fileKey query param?
}

I feel like nextjs documentation is confused between query params and path params. In the link below, they give an example of whats referred to path param(at least in Spring/java world). Its not a query param i.e., that starts with a question mark. So how do I get access to query params(the real query params ?fileKey not path param /fileKey)? Note that this is in an api route meaning it will run on the server so I wont have access to useSearchParams hook which apparently is a client side hook according to docs anyway

https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/routing/api-routes#dynamic-api-routes

[rohitkrishna094]

Never mind, I found it here in some other link by accident: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/routing/route-handlers#opting-out-of-caching

I recommend adding this example to api route page in the docs and also updating that text which I mentioned where they say they are talking about query params but give an example of path param.

[Csb-218]

import { NextRequest } from 'next/server'

export async function GET(request: NextRequest) {

    
    const feature = request?.nextUrl?.searchParams.get('feature')
   
   //Do something
   

}