HTTP Connector Query Parameters

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I have attached a graph with 3 examples that illustrates my questions/problems.

I’m passing query parameter values to the input port of the HTTPConnector. The URL is http://host/document?cmd=*{cmd}&key=*{key}&startdate=*{startdate}

In Example 1, I pass a value of ‘2014-03-14 15:07:07’ for startdate. HTTPConnector_1 fails with message java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character in query at index 77: http://host/document?cmd=AI:4;F:APIUTIL … 2014-03-14 15:07:07.

It doesn’t like the space between the date and time.

In Example 2, I pass a value of ‘2014-03-14&2015:07:07’ for startdate. I encoded the space. HTTPConnector_2 does not fail for an illegal character.

Question 1.
Is this expected behavior and do I have to encode the parameter values before passing to the connector.

In Example 3, I started with a url string of http://host/document?cmd=*{cmd}&key=*{key}&startdate=*{startdate}

I opened the URL Dialog made a change and saved the changes. The url now has a value of http://host/document?cmd=*%7Bcmd%7D&key … artdate%7D

The { and } characters have been encoded. When this runs, the parameter values from the input are not put into the url.

Question 2.
Is there a way to keep the encoding from happening?

Question 3.
I tried using the HTTPConnector attribute “Add input fields as parameters”, but it didn’t seem to have any effect. How is the attribute used?

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Hi mickeye,

the answer to all your questions is that you used deprecated configuration. All you need to do is just simply enter the URL without parameters (so in your case http://host/document). You also need to set “Add input fields as parameters” attribute to true. I have adjusted your graph, so that you can see the result (which is also printed into the log, so that you can see the whole response content).

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Hi Jan,

I made those changes to my graph and it’s working with no problems.

Thanks for your help.