UriTemplate expand method, tries to replace URL parameters containing {} characters

[lecaros]

Hi there,
I'm using spring-android 1.0.0.M4 and noticed this behaviour.

Let's say I want to make a getForObject pointing to following URL:

protocol://example.com/databases/mydatabse/collections/mycollection?q={"field1":"value1", "field2":"value2"}&apikey=8r2e34gd6d3

where q it's a json notated query, like mongolab API.

Well, in this scenario, UriTemplate tries to expand variable "field1":"value1", "field2":"value2" ... which in this case is not a variable, but a URL parameter value.

Is this an expected behaviour?
do you plan to support this kind of URL parameters?

for now, I've made a simple workaround for this, but I'm curious about this kind of URL parameters support.

thanks!

[Roy Clarkson]

In this case, this is the expected behavior, because as you noted Rest Template is designed to replace the {param} notation in the url. The easiest workaround for this is to create a String with your JSON data and use that to populate the q={query} part of the url. I could see the benefit of changing the notation used for parameters, since it obviously collides with JSON notation, but that would also break a lot of existing code out there.

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