url encode special characters

[uachievegmail]

Hello code400 friends,


I am working on a program to consume a web service by passing query params.

To handle special characters in the URL, i.e. & (amp), space, etc, I am doing the scan and replace each special character and encode. Ex: Replace "&" with %26, space with %20, " with %22 etc.

Is this the correct approach or is there a better way to handle all special characters rather than checking for each special character in a string?

Ex: To search for customer Customer "A & R Resources, the URL should be /customer/get?CustomerName=A%26R%20Resources


Thank you.

[JonBoy]

Well the "better way" would be to use an existing library that already offers the routines needed. Scott Klement's HTTPAPI is the one that most people use. http://scottklement.com/httpapi/

Why waste hours reinventing the wheel? Using his stuff I can get a simple consumer program written in less than an hour including all the DS etc. needed to use it with DATA-GEN/DATYA-INTO or the raw YAJL routines.

Another option is to use Giovanni's URL routines from the Easy400.net web site.

[Scott Klement]

I (predictably) sgree with the HTTPAPI recommendation.

But it might be worth mentioning that IBM ships a URLENCODE function with SQL https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?to...calar-function