IWS and REGEX

[ehillbama57]

My incoming web service has one input. A part number that can be up to 30 characters. The part number is alphanumeric and can have dashes, periods, or embedded spaces. When I'm deploying my IWS service I have this defined as my URI path template:

/{mpart:([a-zA-Z0-9-\.\s]+)} 

When I attempt to run the web service passing a part number with an imbedded blank in it, I get a "403 Forbidden" error. Any part with no imbedded blanks works fine.

In my research I thought the "\s" would take care of that. I also tried "␣" and just a single space. Nothing else seems to work.

This is my SoapUI screen for a part (hp 1750) with a space and my error:



And without a space (20275) which works perfectly:



Parts with dashes and periods work great. Just embedded blanks are giving me problems.

Any help for this complete novice?

Thanks!!!

[Vectorspace]

Spaces are not usdually valid in URLs and should be replaced with either %20 or + depending on the type of encoding the endpoint expects
So you might want to try "/web/services/iteminq/hp%201750" or "/web/services/iteminq/hp+1750"

The Javascript function encodeURIComponent() is used for sanitising values to make them URL safe, and will use %20
I forget the equivalent in Java, and it uses +

Most decent endpoint softwares will accept either, I don't know if that's true for the IBM i

[ehillbama57]

Thanks! Got it working now!!!!

[Vectorspace]

Glad to hear it!