Spaces are causing CQL query to fail

Question

I'm trying to use a cql query in an Ajax GET to get some search suggestions. So far it works for a single word (like below), and returns 5 suggestions as intended. http:///rest/api/content/search?cql=text~wifi&limit=5&type=page However any spaces I add to the search end up double encoding the spaces as %2520 and cause the query to fail with the following error: http:///rest/api/content/search?cql=text~wifi%2520network&limit=5&type=page "message":"Could not parse cql : text~wifi%20network"} Is my syntax for the request wrong? How can I handle spaces/multiple words better? I'd be happy to share more of my code if its relevant.

Foti Mougos · Answer

Hi Moses,

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately this didn't work:

https://<myurl.com.au>/rest/api/content/search?cql=text~%22wifi%22&limit=5&type=page

Unfortunately the quotations are still getting double encoded as %2522 when they reach the server.

My javascript that builds the URL and passes it to the Ajax is below, I've tried both using quotes explicitly and using the encoded %22.

var searchURL = 'http://myurl.com.au/rest/api/content/search?cql=text~%22' + text + '%22&limit=' + limit + "&type=page";

OR

var searchURL = 'http://myurl.com.au/rest/api/content/search?cql=text~"' + text + '"&limit=' + limit + "&type=page";

If I copy paste the URL with %22 I don't get any errors. I'm just not sure what is double encoding the quotation marks or spaces in my request. Do you have any other ideas?

Moses Thomas_08kyb0 · Answer

@Foti MougosYou should try like this

http://<myurl.com.au>/rest/api/content/search?cql=text~"wifi  network"&limit=5&type=page

I think  you  are missing  the quotation mark  double quotation mark  "  "

see here also  for  some other example https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/performing-text-searches-using-cql/

best regards,