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perk
Adept
9 years ago

HTTP client URL encoding

Hi,   I am wondering if anyhow knows how to get the HTTP client to work with special characters.   I have a URL string that contains "+" and ":". If I use the FreeMarker ?url method for the strin...
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perk
Adept

I have a line in freemarker that does:

 

<#assign response_nextTicket = http.client.request(url).header("Authorization", token).header("Content-type", "application/json").json().get() />

This is the line that is failing. If the url contains "+" and ":" in their decoded form,

 

https://xxx?page=2&query=type:ticket+organization:123 

 

This is the error I get: 

 

FreeMarker template error

 Method "public final lithium.coreapi.webui.template.models.HttpClientResponseTemplateModel lithium.coreapi.webui.template.models.HttpClientRequestTemplateModel.get() throws freemarker.template.TemplateModelException" threw an exception when invoked on lithium.coreapi.webui.template.models.HttpClientRequestTemplateModel object "lithium.coreapi.webui.template.models.HttpClientRequestTemplateModel@15cd265b". See cause exception. The failing instruction (FTL stack trace): ---------- ==> #assign response_nextTicket = http.cl...

at the bottom, I noticed a null pointer error:

Caused by: freemarker.template.TemplateModelException: No error description was specified for this error; low-level message: java.lang.NullPointerException: null The failing instruction (print stack trace for 15 more): ==> #assign response_nextTicket = http.cl...

 Any further thoughts on this?

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phani
Advisor
9 years ago

Hi perk,

 

Have you tried this http.client call with any other URL which don't have "+"? is it working?

If not i am sure Lithium have to perform some configuration at backend to enable http.client access for your community. Contact support on this.,

If it is working then could you please try again with encoded query data(not full URL).

i.e.

<#assign query1 = "type:ticket+organization:123"?url/>

  <#assign URL =" https://xxx?page=2&query=${query1}"/>

 

Hope this helps!

 

Regards,

Phani