Hey Will,
On 18.09.2008, at 17:29, william kinney wrote:
It seems that the startkey query parameter requires quotes around
the value.
However, my lovely Apache java HttpClient library doesn't like that,
and
throws a org.apache.commons.httpclient.URIException: Invalid query.
Has anyone had any experience with this? I'd like to avoid having to
extend
or hack http client to get around this.
You should percent-encode the quotes before passing them to HttpClient.
In this case, " -> %22
See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding>
On a side note, I've never seen quotes being specified/used in query
parameters before. I couldn't find any mention of it in the w3c
spec. I'm
sure of course it is intended functionality. Bu t does anyone know
why?
The key parameters need to be JSON encoded values, as they can be some
other type than strings, such as integers, arrays or dictionaries. So
the rule is: JSON-encode the value (which will need to be either ASCII
or UTF-8), then percent-encode, finally pass the complete URI to the
HTTP client lib.
Cheers,
--
Christopher Lenz
cmlenz at gmx.de
http://www.cmlenz.net/
