In sending HTTPS request using Javax webtarget client, how to avoid encoding of query params that contain ":["?

I am using WebTarget to send a GET request with query params.

This is my expected request that I need to generate:

{{host}}/svc/lookupservice/v2/findItems?filter=creationdate:[2020-05-01T00:08:17.000Z..]&limit=25&offset=0&userType=seller&userid=11234567 

But using webtarget as follows:

import javax.ws.rs.client.Client; ... ... class A { private Client client; public void apiCall(String userId, String startDate, String endDate) { String endpoint = (String)this.client.getConfiguration().getProperty("jaxrs.client.endpointuri"); WebTarget webTarget = this.client.target(endpoint).path("/lookupservice/v2/findItems") .queryParam("userType", new Object[]{"seller"}) .queryParam("sort", new Object[]{"creationdate"}) .queryParam("limit", new Object[]{150}) .queryParam("offset", new Object[]{0}) .queryParam("filter", new Object[]{"creationdate:[" + startDate + ".." + endDate + "]"}) .queryParam("userid", new Object[]{userId}); ... } ... } class B { main(..) { Date endDate = new Date(); Date startDate = new Date(endDate.getTime() - Duration.ofDays(30).toMillis()); SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'", Locale.getDefault()); sDate = formatter.format(startDate); eDate = formatter.format(endDate); new A().apiCall(userId, sDate, eDate); } } 

And this above generates webTarget url as

JerseyWebTarget { } 

It encodes :[ in creation date.

How can I avoid it?

1 Answer

Figured out by not using webTarget's .queryParams() and instead passing URI with query.

String query = "?userType=seller&limit=25&offset=0&userid=" + userId + "&filter=creationdate:[" + startDate + ".." + endDate + "]"; URI uri = URI.create(endpoint + "/lookupservice/v2/findItems"+ query); WebTarget webTarget = client.target(uri);