ServiceNow EncodedURIComponent not working

[Swapna Patiband]

Hello,

Need help with generating preview link with special characters(/,%,-,/,_ etc.,) on a custom form.

Preview link is not opening when condition is having special characters.

Thanks,

Swapna.

[Hitoshi Ozawa]

@Swapna Patiband Haven't checked if this works in your situtation or not, but instead of encodedURIComponent() try using GlideStringUtil.urlEncode().

var encodedCondition = GlideStringUtil.urlEncode(condition);

[Swapna Patiband]

Thanks @Hitoshi Ozawa 

Didn't work when I tried with GlideStringUtil.urlEncode.

Not working when condition have "%" and space.

[Hitoshi Ozawa]

@Swapna Patiband Tried it.

var str = "abc%def ghi";
var encodedStr = GlideStringUtil.urlEncode(str);
var jsencode = encodeURIComponent(str);
gs.print("original string:   " + str);
gs.print("encoded string:    " + encodedStr);
gs.print("encodeURIComponent:" + jsencode);

Execution result:

*** Script: original string:   abc%def ghi
*** Script: encoded string:    abc%25def+ghi
*** Script: encodeURIComponent:abc%25def%20ghi

GlideStringUtil.urlEncode() replaces "%" with "%25" and a space with "+".

encodeURIComponent() replaces "%" with "%25" and a space with "%20".

Would need a concrete example of where it is not encoding properly.

FYR:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17342671/pass-a-percent-sign-in-a-url-and-get-exact-value-of-it-...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/497908/is-a-url-allowed-to-contain-a-space