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Passing a Regex to RestEasy via the URL ?
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/crashmeister">Craig Horrell</a> in <i>JBoss Web Services</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/602298#602298">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I am trying to pass a Regex via the URL to a reasteasy Web Service. In the JS I use encodeURL() to encode it. On the server side, it gets decoded before being parsed and then gets a parse error.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Encoded URL:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;"><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://localhost:8180/rest/resource/v2/weightTol/insertNew&clientRef=test3&client=99999&forcePrint=false&trackFmt=%5E420%5B0-9%5D%7B5%7D91%5B0-9%5D%7B20%7D$" target="_blank">http://localhost:8180/rest/resource/v2/weightTol/insertNew&clientRef=test3&client=99999&forcePrint=false&trackFmt=%5E420%5B0-9%5D%7B5%7D91%5B0-9%5D%7B20%7D$</a></span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Decoded URL (from stack trace):</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;"><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://localhost:8180/rest/resource/v2/weightTol/insertNew?clientRef=test3&client=99999&forcePrint=false&trackFmt=^420" target="_blank">http://localhost:8180/rest/resource/v2/weightTol/insertNew?clientRef=test3&client=99999&forcePrint=false&trackFmt=^420</a><span>[0-9]{5}91[0-9]{20}$</span></span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Stack Trace:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">2011-04-27 11:14:49,043 WARN  [org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.ServletContainerDispatcher] Failed to parse request.</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">java.lang.IllegalArgumentException</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at java.net.URI.create(URI.java:842)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.resteasy.specimpl.UriInfoImpl.<init>(UriInfoImpl.java:70)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.ServletUtil.extractUriInfo(ServletUtil.java:72)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.ServletContainerDispatcher.service(ServletContainerDispatcher.java:180)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher.service(HttpServletDispatcher.java:48)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher.service(HttpServletDispatcher.java:43)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:235)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:190)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:525)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:92)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.process(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:126)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.invoke(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:70)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:158)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:330)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:829)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:598)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;"><span>Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in query at index 115: </span><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://localhost:8180/rest/resource/v2/weightTol/insertNew?clientRef=test3&client=300470&forcePrint=false&trackFmt=^420" target="_blank">http://localhost:8180/rest/resource/v2/weightTol/insertNew?clientRef=test3&client=300470&forcePrint=false&trackFmt=^420</a><span>[0-9]{5}91[0-9]{20}$</span></span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at java.net.URI$Parser.fail(URI.java:2809)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at java.net.URI$Parser.checkChars(URI.java:2982)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at java.net.URI$Parser.parseHierarchical(URI.java:3072)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(URI.java:3014)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:578)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at java.net.URI.create(URI.java:840)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    ... 27 more</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">2011-04-27 11:14:49,043 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost].[/rest].[Resteasy]] Servlet.service() for servlet Resteasy threw exception</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">java.lang.NullPointerException</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletInputMessage.<init>(HttpServletInputMessage.java:60)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher.createHttpRequest(HttpServletDispatcher.java:64)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher.createResteasyHttpRequest(HttpServletDispatcher.java:53)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.ServletContainerDispatcher.service(ServletContainerDispatcher.java:190)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher.service(HttpServletDispatcher.java:48)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher.service(HttpServletDispatcher.java:43)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:235)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:190)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:525)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:92)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.process(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:126)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.invoke(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:70)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:158)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:330)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:829)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:598)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: 8pt;">    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>My question is: How can I pass the Regex to the WS ?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Craig.</p></div>
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