java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 75

Question

I'm trying to send GET request from java through Apache REST client and encountered this issue.

java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 75: http://torrento.sharepoint.com/_api/web/getfolderbyserverrelativeurl('/Shared Documents/test')/files at java.net.URI$Parser.fail(URI.java:2848) at java.net.URI$Parser.checkChars(URI.java:3021) at java.net.URI$Parser.parseHierarchical(URI.java:3105) at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(URI.java:3053) at java.net.URI.(URI.java:588) at org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder.(URIBuilder.java:82) at com.mstack.samples.sharepoint.SharepointApp.getAllFiles(SharepointApp.java:61) at com.mstack.samples.sharepoint.SharepointApp.main(SharepointApp.java:45)

Code snippet :-

            httpClient = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
            uriBuilder = new URIBuilder(requestUrl);
            System.out.println(uriBuilder);
            httpGet = new HttpGet(uriBuilder.build());
            httpGet.addHeader(AUTHORIZATION, "Bearer " + TOKEN);
            httpGet.addHeader("accept", "application/json; odata=verbose");
            response = httpClient.execute(httpGet);

Where requestUrl is http://torrento.sharepoint.com/_api/web/getfolderbyserverrelativeurl('/Shared Documents/test')/files

I know the space between Shared and Documents is the issue. Tried to encode it. But that too didn't work. Please help

Answer 1

I've obtained the solution by simply adding requestUrl.replaceAll(" ", "%20"); But in case of other special characters this alone won't work. So we must encode url before sending request.

Cheers :)