How to handle Square Brackets [] in Jmeter Request

Question

There is a case to handle Square Brackets [] in Jmeter Request Ex : /api/v1/user/userlist/user[id]/7203/user[roles]/coe

How to handle this

Answer 1

I don't think you can have characters like [ and ] in URL Path, see Characters allowed in a URL question for comprehensive information

You need to encode:

• [ - to %5B
• ] - to %5D

If your URL path comes from external source you can do this automatically using JSR223 PreProcessor and the following Groovy code:

sampler.setPath(sampler.getPath().replaceAll('\\[','%5B').replaceAll('\\]','%5D'))

Answer 2

Change the implementation type to Java in the HTTP Request Sampler

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