java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 75

Question

I'm trying to send GET request from java through Apache REST client and encountered this issue.

java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 75: http://torrento.sharepoint.com/_api/web/getfolderbyserverrelativeurl('/Shared Documents/test')/files at java.net.URI$Parser.fail(URI.java:2848) at java.net.URI$Parser.checkChars(URI.java:3021) at java.net.URI$Parser.parseHierarchical(URI.java:3105) at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(URI.java:3053) at java.net.URI.(URI.java:588) at org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder.(URIBuilder.java:82) at com.mstack.samples.sharepoint.SharepointApp.getAllFiles(SharepointApp.java:61) at com.mstack.samples.sharepoint.SharepointApp.main(SharepointApp.java:45)

Code snippet :-

            httpClient = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
            uriBuilder = new URIBuilder(requestUrl);
            System.out.println(uriBuilder);
            httpGet = new HttpGet(uriBuilder.build());
            httpGet.addHeader(AUTHORIZATION, "Bearer " + TOKEN);
            httpGet.addHeader("accept", "application/json; odata=verbose");
            response = httpClient.execute(httpGet);

Where requestUrl is http://torrento.sharepoint.com/_api/web/getfolderbyserverrelativeurl('/Shared Documents/test')/files

I know the space between Shared and Documents is the issue. Tried to encode it. But that too didn't work. Please help

I've changed accordingly and ran into another issues. Can you say how should I change the code to get this working ? — Sachin
– Sachin, Commented Jun 30, 2016 at 12:41
"Tried to encode it. But that too didn't work." - Show us what you tried and what happened. Because the solution is to encode the path part of the URL ... the right way. — Stephen C
– Stephen C, Commented Jun 30, 2016 at 13:33

Sachin · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-12 13:19:24Z

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I've obtained the solution by simply adding requestUrl.replaceAll(" ", "%20"); But in case of other special characters this alone won't work. So we must encode url before sending request.

Cheers :)

answered Jul 12, 2016 at 13:19

Sachin

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