Question

Is there a way to make the Play! Framework ignore slashes and ? in parts of the URL?

Typically, if I have the following:

www.123.com/api/link/http:www.bla.com/?contenId=123&User=test

It won’t work. In that case, what I would want to do is simply have the link in the last part of the URL in a String variable to save it. I suppose I can force the client to replace the / and ? by something else, but I would rather keep it simple.

My first thought was that maybe there is a way to configure the routing such that we have something like:

/api/link/{data}

where data would hold whatever remains of the URL. Can’t find out how to do that though.

Answer 1

You can’t have : / ? except your main URL. You should encode your parameter to append it to main URL. See URLEncoder for Java.

This is not a valid URL:

http://www.123.com/api/link/http://www.bla.com/?contenId=123&User=test

It must be:

http://www.123.com/api/link/http%3a%2f%2fwww.bla.com%2f%3fcontenId%3d123%26User%3dtest

Then you can pass it to {data} parameter and decode it in your handler method.