Question

I use this line to build a drive query

request.setQ("fullText contains '" + originalFileName + "'");

However when the originalFilename contains a “‘” the request throws this error:

com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException: 400 Bad Request {   "code" : 400,   "errors" : [ {
    "domain" : "global",
    "location" : "q",
    "locationType" : "parameter",
    "message" : "Invalid Value",
    "reason" : "invalid"   } ],   "message" : "Invalid Value" }

I understand why the error is thrown, but how do I build a search string to find the files that contain “faq’s”in the indexable text? Is there a wildcard character, or an escape character?

Answer 1

You should escape the ' with a \, so:

"fullText contains \'myFile\'"