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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...
groovy
rest api
  • 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.

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
2 years ago

Joe’s answer should be marked as the right answer. I can’t believe i forgot about that, but i probably built the encoder into my query param handler function. FWIW: if you encode just the value portion of each query parameter, then join together with the key, then join each key value pair together, it should work cleanly. I get it if you don’t want to do that.