Having some issue encoding in Java

[Mohamed Faliq]

So Im trying to translate a working python code into Java. One of the steps required is to url encode the data. But when I encode the data in Java it looks different than the one in encoded in Python.

In one of the block of Python code theres this:

data = {'request-json': json} 

print('Sending form data:', data) 

data = urlencode(data) 

data = data.encode('utf-8') 

print('Sending data:', data)

The Output

Sending form data: {'request-json': '{"apikey": "xewpjipcpovwiiql"}'}

The output after being encoded

Sending data: b'request-json=%7B%22apikey%22%3A+%22xewpjipcpovwiiql%22%7D'

So this is what im trying to do in Java. As you can imagine Java is more involved. I used gson to convert to Json

Gson gson = new Gson(); 

API_Key key = new API_Key("xewpjipcpovwiiql"); 

String jsonInputString = gson.toJson(key); 

Data data = new Data(key); 

String request_form = gson.toJson(data); 

System.out.println(request_form);

String urlencoded = URLEncoder.encode(request_form,StandardCharsets.UTF_8); System.out.println(urlencoded);

The output:

Sending form data: {"request-json":{"apikey":"xewpjipcpovwiiql"}}

The output of the encoded string:

%7B%22requestjson%22%3A%7B%22apikey%22%3A%22xewpjipcpovwiiql%22%7D%7D

So they dont look the same so why are they coming differently ? How do I get the same python encoded String in Java ? 

I noticed in Python it used a combination of single and double quotes and in Java its only Double quotes so I dont know if that makes a difference. And Does spaces between the brackets matter ?

Thank You!

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[Dustin Lang]

Hi,

I think this part is wrong:

String request_form = gson.toJson(data);

you should not be forming a second JSON string; you want to be formatting an x-www-form-urlencoded URL encoding of the key-value pair "request-json" and the JSON-encoded API key dictionary.  Java's URLEncoder doesn't do that; it only takes a String, so you either need to find a function that will make that URL encoding for you, or do it yourself; I tihnk it's just "request-json=" + jsonInputString.

cheers,

--dustin

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