Rest-assured: Dollar Sign in URL getting encoded

[chauhangs]

Seems to be an issue with URL encoding

We have an endpoint to get the with $ sign

http://localhost:8080/myaccount/rest/v1/orders/$count

So when we send the request the URL is encoded as

http://localhost:8080/myaccount/rest/v1/orders/%24count

But $ is a reserved URL character per the below spec and should be ok to use like other reserved characters ( +, *, / , : etc.) which don’t get encoded

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2.2

Other framework like jersyclient , angular, springresettemplate all respects this and not encode $ sign.

The workaround is to disable the URL encoding , but shouldn't be this taken care and not encoded at first place.

[johanhaleby]

REST Assured is using java.net.URLEncoder to encode the URL. Feels strange that it shouldn't work as expected?

[johanhaleby]

Maybe it's not as strange though, reading the javadoc it says that it's intended for encoding "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" contents. Didn't know that this was different than encoding URL's, but maybe it is?

[chauhangs]

Yes it is I debugged and took sometime to understand the groovy part. So I see the code is actually splitting the path using "/" and then encoding the each string and thats why the $ is getting encoded.
Is there is plan to fix this?

[johanhaleby]

It sounds like something that ought to be fixed. And now that you've digged into the code already it would be great if you could help out with a pull request :)

[agrishkan]

there is a work-around with RequestSpecBuilder:
RequestSpecification spec = new RequestSpecBuilder().setUrlEncodingEnabled(false); spec.setBaseUri(...);
Then it won't escape the $ character.