Using dropwizard to make RESTful service, the URL can contain a space

Question

I have some code making a @Path for an endpoint:

@Path("/productLine:[a-zA-Z]{1,25}}/cat")

I want to allow two word product lines in the URL. I tried this

@Path("productLine:[a-zA-Z ]{1,25}}/cat")

But the client returns a

HTTP 404 Not Found

when I use a request that has two words, like this:

/services/New Host/cat

A space is not a valid character in paths. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4669692/valid-characters-for-directory-part-of-a-url-for-short-links - at server level, it's represented as `%20` and I guess, that's also what you have to specify in your `@Path()`. Browsers will often show a space instead, because it's nicer for the user. But they should send `%20` under the hood. — zapl, May 23 '16 at 17:44

Stuk4 · Answer 1 · 2016-05-23T17:50:42.153

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can u try with:

@Path("productLine:[a-zA-Z\x0B]{1,25}}/cat")

edited May 23 '16 at 17:50

answered May 23 '16 at 17:40

Stuk4

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 23 '16 at 19:01

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This worked:

@Path("productLine:[a-zA-Z%20]{1,25}}/cat")

The %20 is the HTTP encoding for space.

answered May 23 '16 at 19:01

Dave

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