REST：包含URL的查询参数

Question

How to process query params that will contain values that are urls?

For example if my endpoint is /endpoint/urls/{urls} and the query param value urls will contain a url. How should I tell the server that the value of {urls} must be escaped and treated as a string instead of a real url ?

As an example :

/endpoint/urls/ http://www.google.com

Answer 1

First of all, the example provided in your question is not a query parameter . It's a path parameter .

To send a URL as a query parameter, you must use a key/value pair ( key=value ) and the value must be URL encoded:

/endpoint?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

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To URL encode a value (path or query parameter) in Java, you can use:

String valueUrlEncoded = URLEncoder.encode(value, "UTF-8")