jenkins groovy shell curl command not working

Question

While running the curl command using sh in Jenkins pipeline, the curl GET request after "&" is not getting sent.

pipeline{
  agent{
      node{
          label 'xxxx'
      }
  }
  stages{
    stage('first'){
      steps{
        script{
          def url = 'xxxxx/sonar/api/qualitygates'
          def project = 'xxxx'
          def pr = 'xxx'
          sh "curl -u xxxx: ${url}/project_status?projectKey=${project}&branch=${pr}"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Somehow the "&" and anything after that is not read during command execution.

Console output in Jenkins

+ branch=xxxx
+ curl -u xxxx: 'xxxxxx/sonar/api/qualitygates/project_status?projectKey=xxxxx'
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0

Answer 1

for & in URL you should add \ for that like this: "curl URL/param1=value1&param2=value2"