Picasso not working if url contains space

Question

I am developing an Android app in which I am retrieving an image from a server and show it in an image view using Picasso. Some image URLs don't work even though I can test them successfully in a browser.

For example this URL works correctly:

http://www.tonightfootballreport.com/\Filebucket\Picture\image\png\20160730011032_BPL.png

But this one fails:

http://www.tonightfootballreport.com/\Filebucket\Picture\image\png\20160807025619_Serie A.png

The difference appears to be that the failing URL contains a space. What do I need to do to make this work?

replace all spaces with `%20`. Would you like to see a code sample? then I can post an answer. — Ishita Sinha, Sep 19 '16 at 05:20
@Wai Yan Hein try [this](http://stackoverflow.com/a/2593319/3117966) out :) — Nisarg, Sep 19 '16 at 05:23
Simply encode your url or just check that your url contains space or not. — Piyush, Sep 19 '16 at 05:29

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 19 '16 at 05:30

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String temp = "http://www.tonightfootballreport.com/\Filebucket\Picture\image\png\20160807025619_Serie A.png";
temp = temp.replaceAll(" ", "%20");
URL sourceUrl = new URL(temp);

answered Sep 19 '16 at 05:30

Shankar

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The actual solution is to encode the URL like the other answer suggests. This answer only encodes spaces, but not all other characters which need to be encoded. – Xaver Kapeller Sep 19 '16 at 05:41
if your url contains non English words, this answer won't work! – Milad Yarmohammadi Sep 19 '16 at 05:44
Hmm... He is asking only spaces. – Shankar Sep 19 '16 at 11:10
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That doesn't change that this is a bad answer. He is asking for spaces because he has only encountered the problem with spaces. The op obviously doesn't know about url encoding etc and giving him/her this half solution that appears to work is like a bug timebomb itching to explode. – Xaver Kapeller Sep 19 '16 at 13:13

K Neeraj Lal · Answer 2 · 2016-09-20T07:45:36.710

Encode the URL,

String url = "http://www.tonightfootballreport.com/Filebucket/Picture/image/png/20160807025619_Serie A.png";
String encodedUrl = URLEncoder.encode(url, "utf-8");

EDIT #1 :

The problem with above method as @Wai Yan Hein, pointed is that it encode all the characters in the url including the protocol.

The following code solves that issue,

String urlStr = "http://www.tonightfootballreport.com/Filebucket/Picture/image/png/20160807025619_Serie A.png";
URL url = new URL(urlStr);
URI uri = new URI(url.getProtocol(), url.getUserInfo(), url.getHost(), url.getPort(), url.getPath(), url.getQuery(), url.getRef());
url = uri.toURL();

Edit #2

Alternate solution using Uri.parse,

String urlStr = "http://www.tonightfootballreport.com/Filebucket/Picture/image/png/20160807025619_Serie A.png";
String url = Uri.parse(urlStr)
                .buildUpon()
                .build()
                .toString();

Url become like this, http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tonightfootballreport.com%2F%5CFilebucket%5CPicture%5Cimage%5Cpng%5C20160730011032_BPL.png and all not working. — Wai Yan Hein, Sep 19 '16 at 05:35

Aneeb Khawar · Answer 3 · 2016-09-21T10:10:07.323

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Check if the URL is indeed valid and if not try encoding it,

if(!Patterns.WEB_URL.matcher(url).matches()){
            URLEncoder.encode(url, "utf-8");
            //Now load via Picasso
        }
else{
      //Proceed with loading via picasso
}

edited Sep 21 '16 at 10:10

answered Sep 19 '16 at 05:34

Aneeb Khawar

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Picasso not working if url contains space

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