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Peter Hodgkin · Oct 26, 2021

Windows Reserved Word in URL used in Business Operation

#JSON #InterSystems IRIS

I have an issue where a Windows Reserved word, in my case CON, is causing an error when used as part of a JSON Get operation.  In this case CON is the user identifier (the full identifier is CON.SURNAME) of a person and I am trying to read the employee record using a web service provided by the payroll system.

Is there a way I can get around this, some sort of encoding that would enable the inclusion of this identifier.  I can't just change the identifier has it is used extensively across systems.

Product version: IRIS 2020.2
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Alexander Pettitt · Oct 26, 2021

Have you tried URL encoding? CON would be equal to %43%4F%4E and con would be %63%6F%6E

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Peter Hodgkin · Oct 26, 2021

Thanks Alexander, I will try that.

Worked great.

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Robert Cemper · Oct 27, 2021

code sniplet:

set test="CONcatenate".url=""
for i=1:1:$l(test) s url=url_"%"_$zhex($a(test,i)) 

write
i=11
test="CONcatenate"
url="%43%4F%4E%63%61%74%65%6E%61%74%65"
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