Escaping Question Marks in parameter names

[RobertDy]

I'm making a Custom API Call in Fusion and I'm trying to update a parameter value that has a question mark in the name. 

Does anyone know how to make this work. I've tried a unicode value an encoded Url value a backslash??

Can anyone help?

Thank you.

[Jvenkat]

Hi @RobertDy 

If you are using JAVA to make an API call, try to use the below code snippet that might help.

String value = docMetadata.has(MetadataConstants.JCR_TITLE)
? docMetadata.get(MetadataConstants.JCR_DESCRIPTION).getAsString().replace("?", "%3F")
: StringUtils.EMPTY;

In Place of title or description use the parameters that you are passing.

[RobertDy]

Thank you for your reply. I'm actually using Fusion (I updated my question). 

However, I think I tried replacing the question mark with %3F and it didn't seem to work.

Rob

[ChrisStephens]

To make sure I understand, you are trying to update one of a parameter's options? If so, how are you making your call? You shouldn't need to do any of this when making an update, because your update shouldn't be in the url.

[RobertDy]

@ChrisStephens 

The updates are in the JSON object in the body of the POST request. 

e.g. 

{

"name":"test",

"DE:Paramater Name":"123",

"DE:Paramater Name 2?":"456"

}

The name of the parameter here has a question mark. When I submit it, it then tells me it can't find the parameter with that name. 

[ChrisStephens]

If it's in the body then you shouldn't need to escape it, are you sure that's the name?

[RobertDy]

@ChrisStephens 

That was my initial thought, so I pulled the API name out via the API (POSTMan) then copied and pasted in to Fusion. So just assumed I needed to escape the character.

[RobertDy]

Oh No. I've found the solution, my category ID was actually incorrect.

Slightly embarrassing

Sorry for wasting your time.

Rob

[ChrisStephens]

No worries, glad you figured it out!