Question

I am developing an android application and I am using a RESTful service to connect to SQL azure database. I need to use this RESTful url:

http://example.com/wcfDataService1.svc/wn_synset?$filter=word%20eq%20'child's_game'&$select=synset_id,w_num,word,ss_type,wn_gloss/gloss&$expand=wn_gloss

As you can see am looking for this word (child's_game) in the table wn_synset.
The problem is the single quote (') in child's_game. As you can see it puts the word inside quotes '...' so when it finds the quote in child's_game it thinks it is the end of the word and the rest is error.

How can i solve this problem?

Answer 1

You can url-encode the ‘ symbols with %27. See http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp and try it in the “Try it yourself” section.

Edit: (moved correct guess from comments to the answer itself)

Or is it just, that the SQL-Server on the server side gets it wrong? Like it builds a select * from wn_synset where word = ‘child’s game’ and there’s the error? Then you’ll have to look up how you escape single quotes for your database — probably it’s by using two single quotes (”), so perhaps try to send child”s game instead of child’s game.