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Lewis_Beard's avatar
Lewis_Beard
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2 years ago

string filters in the API (groovy)

In the past I have not had much need of filters in API, and on the rare occasion I have, it has been numeric filters. But for some reason I cannot get string filters to work at all without throwing e...
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  • Joe_Williams's avatar
    Joe_Williams
    2 years ago

    You need to url encode the quotes if they aren’t already. So when you send it, it needs to look like this.

    /setting/admins?filter=status%3A%22active%22

    Things like Postman auto do that for you.

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Lewis_Beard
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2 years ago

Thanks, that worked out for me. I had to hard code the %3A and %22, but it worked perfectly. When I tried to use some html escape package, it also converted the & to the html notation, which made the filter NOT work. But if I leave the ampersand as-is and manually do the rest, it works brilliantly.

Thanks to both of you!!!