How to allow slashes in path param in jax-rs endpoint

Question

I have an endpoint as:

@Path("/products")

    @Produces({ MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })
    public interface Products {

        @PUT
        @Path("/{productId}")
        ....
    }

I have a jax-rs client implemented for this service and have it imported in the another service that I am calling this from.

So I am calling the client as below from my second service

public String updateProduct(String productId){
..
  return client.target(this.getBaseUrl()).path("products/").path(productId).request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE).put(Entity.json(""), String.class);
}

If I have a product with slashes say "control/register app" , the service does not seem to take it well. I did encode the productId before making a call to the service and then decoded it once received. But that doesnt seem to work and I get a 404 not found. Any ideas? Thanks in advance

Possible duplicate of [@PathVariable in SpringBoot with slashes in URL](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43470421/pathvariable-in-springboot-with-slashes-in-url) — P.J.Meisch, May 15 '17 at 18:03
@P.J.Meisch It's not a duplicate of the above mentioned question, once the OP is using JAX-RS instead of Spring MVC for the REST API. — cassiomolin, May 15 '17 at 19:58

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered May 15 '17 at 17:25

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Using @Path("{productId : .+}") should work.

answered May 15 '17 at 17:25

cassiomolin

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Thanks, that helped! – San Kay May 15 '17 at 22:02
@cassiomolin Why does this answer work, is this a regex? – Cyriac George Feb 05 '21 at 01:38
@CyriacGeorge, It's a regex: `.` means any symbol and `+` at least one or more. – Daria Pydorenko Feb 08 '21 at 15:28

How to allow slashes in path param in jax-rs endpoint

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