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thomasb
thomasb

Reputation: 6037

Do not encode parameters in RestSharp

I am using RestSharp to access a RubyOnRails API. As you might know, RoR likes when the parameters names are in the form model_name[property]. RestSharp, on the other hand, does not like it.

Fiddler says I send this to the server :

user%5Bemail%5D=user%40email.com&user%5Bpassword%5D=test

It looks like R# encodes both the parameters and values when it sends the data (unlike Curl, which looks like it encodes selectively). While that's fine most of the time I guess, in this particular case, it makes the API return a 401 because it doesn't understand the parameters.

Is it possible to ask R# to not encode the request's parameters ?

Thank you !

Edit

Ok, in the R# sources, I found the method RestClient.EncodeParameters, so it looks like the parameter's name is always encoded. I guess I will have to fork it :(

Upvotes: 6

Views: 12312

Answers (6)

José Mancharo
José Mancharo

Reputation: 336

This solution worked for me

request.AddQueryParameter("sendEndDate", "string:data,something-else", false);

This is the function in the metadata of RestSharp.IRestRequest:

IRestRequest AddQueryParameter(string name, string value, bool encode);

Upvotes: 0

Ruben Martirosyan
Ruben Martirosyan

Reputation: 940

Since RestSharp version 106.4.0 you can just use ParameterType.QueryStringWithoutEncode in request.AddParameter() function:

        request.AddParameter("user_id", @"45454545%6565%65", ParameterType.QueryStringWithoutEncode);

Upvotes: 14

Ray Suelzer
Ray Suelzer

Reputation: 4107

Update: probably doesn't work in most cases from comments.

I found an interesting solution... Just decode the parameters you want to pass in and restsharp will encode back to what it should be. For example, I have an api key that uses %7 in it and RestSharper further encodes it. I decoded the api key and passed that into RestSharp and it seems to work!

Upvotes: 0

ebol2000
ebol2000

Reputation: 1283

See this PR from the project site: https://github.com/restsharp/RestSharp/pull/1157

However, as far as I can tell, it's not yet in a release on NuGet.

Upvotes: 0

thomasb
thomasb

Reputation: 6037

In the RestSharp sources I found out that the parameters are always encoded (both the name and the value), so I guess that I will have to fork it if I want to add an additional parameter.

Upvotes: 5

birdamongmen
birdamongmen

Reputation: 2100

I know this has already been answered, but I wanted to add this answer since it worked for me. There is an (albeit hacky) solution to this. Build your own uri for parameters that should not be encoded.

var uri = string.Concat("/path/to/your/api", "?paramThatShouldNotBeEncoded=", DateTime.Now.Date.AddDays(1).ToString("O"));
var restRequest = new RestRequest(uri, Method.GET);

Upvotes: 5

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