How to add Query Parameters with space in SerivceNow Rest APi?

[User477307]

Hi there,

I'm trying to connect to a third party URL
where the query parameters are as follows:
@Param1 = All systems;
@param2 = action 3;

Ideally the url in POSTMAN is formed as
https://www.demoendpoint.com/welcome?@param1=All%20systems&@param2=action%203

But ServiceNow Script which I'm using below:
var demotest= new sn_ws.RESTMessageV2('demo', 'DemoAPI');
demotest.setQueryParameter('@param1', 'All systems');
demotest.setQueryParameter('@param2', 'action 3');
demotest.execute();

I'm getting an error saying invalid URI: https://www.demoendpoint.com/welcome?@param1=All+systems&@param2=action+3

You can see in the above URL space is replaced with + rather than %20

Can some please help?

Thanks,

Pradnyesh.

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@User477307 

did you try to encode the URI?

form the URL and then set the endpoint

like this

var url = ''; // form the url here
url = encodeURIComponent(url);

var demotest= new sn_ws.RESTMessageV2('demo', 'DemoAPI');
demotest.setEndpoint(url);
demotest.execute();

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[User477307]

Hi @Ankur Bawiskar 

Yes, I tried. But the problem now seems to be that

"space" is replaced with %20 and then %20 is replaced with %2520.

Also, upon further checking '/' in the url is also getting encoded.

We can't expect thrid party URL provider to change their query parameters.

Thanks,

Pradnyesh.

[Sai Shravan]

Hi @User477307 ,

Can you try in this way

var demotest = new sn_ws.RESTMessageV2('demo', 'DemoAPI');
demotest.setEndpoint('https://www.demoendpoint.com/welcome');
demotest.setHttpMethod('get');
demotest.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
var param1 = 'All systems';
var param2 = 'action 3';
var url = 'https://www.demoendpoint.com/welcome?@param1=' + encodeURIComponent(param1) + '&@param2=' + encodeURIComponent(param2);
demotest.setEndpoint(url);
var response = demotest.execute();

Regards,

Shravan
please mark this as helpful and correct answer, if this helps you

[User477307]

Hi @Sai Shravan ,

Yes we tried but after setting the endpoint we are facing the same issue that space is converted to %20 in encodedURIComponent function and then in setEnpoint %20 is converted to %2520.

Still not found a workaround for this.

Any help would be appericiated.