How to Encode a URL for sendHttpGetRequest?

[Mr-JR (James R)]

Basic question that I’m sure others have had …

Im using jython scripting and the HTTP module to use sendHttpGetRequest … is there an easy way to do an URLencode? i.e. what’s the preferred OpenHab way to encode a URL?

I’m manually encoding it which works but I need a general solution.

Thanks!

[Wolfgang_S]

python/jython overs the possibility to use the function urlencode.
E.g. see at

Encoding problems with python rule in OH3

Hi, I’m running the latest version of OH3 on Docker. Migration has not been painless but I was doing fine till yesterday. I have a rule that is triggered by a sensor state change. Step 1 : I want to take a snapshot with a cctv cam Step 2 : I will send the image to another application running on docker. Step 3 : I will receive results in JSON format. This is what I have so far: # imports from org.slf4j import LoggerFactory import urllib2 import urllib import base64 # Start The logger log …

[Mr-JR (James R)]

@Wolfgang_S

python/jython overs the possibility to use the function urlencode.

Thanks Wolfgang … turns out what I really only needed urllib.quote_plus … that did the trick. Thank you!

[thomaskekeisen]

Can you share our final solution?