Special characters fails when API runs in script

Hi!

The customer has equal sign in ITNO like 123456=123 that cause problems with API.

If I drop api call direct to browsers URL field it works fine but when that very same API call runs in script in M3 then = will be encoded to %3D.

It there any way to force keep format as it in string?

Br Jyka

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No.

When ITNO is a parameter in an URL it has to be encoded. In fact it should always be encoded. So even when you test with the URL directly and have the parameter encoded it should be decoded correctly. The browser might handle it a bit differently in the addressfield but the paramters are separated by = so it's simply not valid and has to be encoded.

If the value on the receiving end is not decoded back to 12345=123 then it's a bug in the MI program. If this is an MI program? Or it's actually encoded twice before it's sent. Check with Fiddler for example, raw tab.

Use https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ to play around.

What exacly is the URL or the URL template?

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Hi Karin!

Yes it is MI program CRS990MI and there is defined MNS185 MWOOPEPMS in order to get list all operations included in specific MO.

So if this:

https://theCustomer.com/m3api-rest/execute/CRS990MI/LstBrowse;metadata=false;maxrecs=33;excludempty=false;cono=100;divi=310;returncols=FV01,FV02?&FLDI=MWOOPEPMS&VARI=1&KV01=100&KV02=FIB&KV03=12312312=12&KV04=4005179999

is ran in browser I get response, list of operations, defined fiels.

But when that same is in script in M3 response is "item not found" and when I check out Request URL by developer tool there is exactly same but that = sign is replaced by %3D

Thats why I thought that at it lookups wrong PRNO from API.

Br Jyka

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For get this. This sorted out to be wrong definion of PMS230 view and some characters of PRNO dropped out.

So there is no any fails on API.

Br Jyka

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