How to make REST API calls that have filter added

Question

I am new to REST API and I want to make a REST API call which returns a JSON object

http://smlookup.dev/sec/products?search= {"ABC.CP":"123A5"} - Runs fine in a browser and gives a JSON object

how do i get '?search={"ABC.CP":"12345"}' this expression to work as it filter the records

Code i am using is

    String serverUrl="http://smlookup.dev/sec/products?search=";
    String search=URLEncoder.encode("={\"ABC.CP\":\"12345\"}");
    URL url = new URL(serverUrl+search);
        HttpURLConnection httpCon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        httpCon.setDoOutput(true);
        httpCon.setRequestMethod("GET");
        OutputStream out = httpCon.getOutputStream();

            //FAILS GIVING 405 STATUS CODE                       
        int responseCode = httpCon.getResponseCode();

All help or suggestions are helpful

Thanks!

Answer 1

Not sure if its normal but you dont send any data in your POST. Furthermore you should urlencode your url, the inverted comma are not accepted like that.

URLEncoder.encode("={\"Xref.CP\":\"XAW3123A5\"}");