In a Tapestry-generated web page I have some Javascript like this:
var arg = 'StringWithoutSpaces'; // Works only if no spaces in
this string.
var sLink = '/mypage.mycomponent:myevent/' +
encodeURIComponent(arg);
alert(sLink); // Just for debug.
location.href = sLink;
This works as I expected, that is in the Java class of the component the method
onMyEvent(String arg)
gets called and it receives the value "StringWithoutSpaces" in arg.
The problem is that if the argument contains spaces (ASCII 32), for ex.
var arg = 'String With Spaces';
then I get the below exception.
I don't understand why, because from the Javascript alert box I can see that
the spaces were correctly encoded into %20, so when the browser executes the
Javascript statement
location.href = sLink;
the variable sLink has a value without any actual space:
/mypage.mycomponent:myevent/String%20With%20Spaces
So I'm wondering what is the right way to pass spaces - and possibly other
characters that might have the same problem as the space. I thought a right way
was to escape them with encodeURIComponent() in the Javascript that makes the
call, but it looks like it's not right.
The exception is:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
Input string 'String With Spaces' is not valid; the character ' ' at position 7
is not valid.
Stack trace
org.apache.tapestry5.internal.services.URLEncoderImpl.decode(URLEncoderImpl.java:144)
org.apache.tapestry5.internal.services.ContextPathEncoderImpl.decodePath(ContextPathEncoderImpl.java:92)
org.apache.tapestry5.internal.services.ComponentEventLinkEncoderImpl.validateAndConstructComponentEventRequest(ComponentEventLinkEncoderImpl.java:377)
org.apache.tapestry5.internal.services.ComponentEventLinkEncoderImpl.decodeComponentEventRequest(ComponentEventLinkEncoderImpl.java:329)
org.apache.tapestry5.internal.services.linktransform.LinkTransformerInterceptor.decodeComponentEventRequest(LinkTransformerInterceptor.java:58)
org.apache.tapestry5.internal.services.ComponentEventDispatcher.dispatch(ComponentEventDispatcher.java:42)
org.apache.tapestry5.services.TapestryModule$RequestHandlerTerminator.service(TapestryModule.java:302)
org.apache.tapestry5.internal.services.RequestErrorFilter.service(RequestErrorFilter.java:26)
org.apache.tapestry5.services.TapestryModule$3.service(TapestryModule.java:902)
org.apache.tapestry5.services.TapestryModule$2.service(TapestryModule.java:892)
org.apache.tapestry5.internal.services.StaticFilesFilter.service(StaticFilesFilter.java:90)
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