Parameters with space result in URL truncation of REST reque

Question

I have a REST resource with a parameter /groups/{groupName}?username=user. If groupName has a space in it, an exception is thrown and then the actual request that is sent is truncated (notice most of the resource path is gone).

GET https://<server>:9443/myapp_ui/jaxrs?username=userA HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

Here is the exception (index 50 is the space after group):

Fri Apr 27 09:34:00 PDT 2012:ERROR:java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 50: https://<server>:9443/myapp_ui/jaxrs/groups/group A
java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 50: https://<server>:9443/myapp_ui/jaxrs/groups/group A
at java.net.URI$Parser.fail(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URI$Parser.checkChars(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URI$Parser.parseHierarchical(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URI.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.http.client.utils.URIUtils.createURI(URIUtils.java:106)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.submit.filters.HttpRequestFilter.filterHttpRequest(HttpRequestFilter.java:226)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.submit.filters.RestRequestFilter.filterRestRequest(RestRequestFilter.java:39)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.submit.filters.AbstractRequestFilter.filterAbstractHttpRequest(AbstractRequestFilter.java:39)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.submit.filters.AbstractRequestFilter.filterRequest(AbstractRequestFilter.java:31)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.submit.transports.http.HttpClientRequestTransport.sendRequest(HttpClientRequestTransport.java:177)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.WsdlSubmit.run(WsdlSubmit.java:123)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

gvalenc · Answer

So I think this is not related to the space in the URL but actually caused by having too complex a path in the endpoint. If I have anything beyond the host and port in the endpoint, e.g. https://<server>:<ip>/myapp_ui/jaxrs, and then create resources based on this, I see the truncation occur.

If I limit the endpoint to just https://<server>:<ip> and modify the resources to prepend /myapp_ui/jaxrs, it works fine. I didn't see anything in the docs that required the endpoint to be limited in such a way though.

leskop · Answer

replace all special characters with html decoded ones. " " with "%2B", "-" with "%2D", ....
in your case /groups/{groupName}?username=user should looks like: /groups/group1%2Bgroup1?username=user

for more details see http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

gvalenc · Answer

It automatically does the encoding. That isn't the problem. The problem occurs if the endpoint has additional paths after the hostname and port.

marwanzo · Answer

This used to work fine in 3.6.1 wondering what changed in 4.5.0. Any updates on this issues?

marwanzo · Answer

I think that the issues is with https://&lt;server&gt;:9443 the colon ":" which does not make sense, I tried the same rest request on 3.6.1 without the port number and it worked fine.

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