Error Invalid URL : REST API : GET Call : Ascii Code Encoding

Ketan Mittal1 · ‎09-17-2020

I am trying to do a get call via the Rest Messages for this endpoint : https://ocwen-sb.api.identitynow.com/beta/accounts?filters=sourceId eq "2c918084742b9e9a0174447f3d0d1821" and nativeIdentity eq "EXT100001"

However, when I try to run this, I get an error as "invalid URL".

Funny thing, this works well & good on the Postman. I searched a bit about this on google and got to know that apparently, some of these values need to be changes to ascii codes.

So I changed it to this : https://ocwen-sb.api.identitynow.com/beta/accounts?filters=(sourceId=2c918084742b9e9a0174447f3d0d1821&nativeIdentity=EXT100001)

Now I get "Method failed: (/beta/accounts) with code: 400"

{"detailCode":"400.1 Bad request content","trackingId":"7ed978c82e0540ebb13c9aec18c664ae","messages":[{"locale":"en-US","localeOrigin":"DEFAULT","text":"The request was syntactically correct but its content is semantically invalid."}]}

Couldn't find any solution. Need help.

Ankur Bawiskar · ‎09-17-2020

@Ketan Mittal

I assume you must be setting the endpoint of the REST Message using setEndPoint()

please update as below

var sourceId = '2c918084742b9e9a0174447f3d0d1821';

var nativeIdentity = 'EXT100001';

var url = 'https://ocwen-sb.api.identitynow.com/beta/accounts?filters=(sourceId=' + sourceId + '&nativeIdentity=' + nativeIdentity + ')';

url = encodeURIComponent(url);

var request = new sn_ws.RESTMessageV2();
request.setEndpoint();
request.setHttpMethod('GET');

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Ankur

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Ankur
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Geoff_T · ‎09-17-2020

Hi,

Have you tried to use encodeURIComponent?

var queryParam = 'sourceId eq "2c918084742b9e9a0174447f3d0d1821" and nativeIdentity eq "EXT100001"'

var uri = 'https://ocwen-sb.api.identitynow.com/beta/accounts?filters=' + encodeURIComponent(queryParam);

Something like the above.

Let me know if it works.

Ketan Mittal1 · ‎09-17-2020

Thanks Geoff. but how do I use this in the Rest Messages ?

Ankur Bawiskar · ‎09-17-2020

Hi Ketan,

If you are hardcoding the endpoint in that then use this directly

https://ocwen-sb.api.identitynow.com/beta/accounts?filters=(sourceId=2c918084742b9e9a0174447f3d0d1821&nativeIdentity=EXT100001)

Regards
Ankur

Regards,
Ankur
✨ Certified Technical Architect || ✨ 9x ServiceNow MVP || ✨ ServiceNow Community Leader

Ketan Mittal1 · ‎09-17-2020

Tried this. Doesn't work. Method failed: (/beta/accounts) with code: 400 The request was syntactically correct but its content is semantically invalid.