How to use UriBuilder.queryParam without encoding parameters?

Question

I'm writing a REST API endpoint with pagination and I want it to include the links to the first, previous, next and last pages. I also want these links to include whatever parameters that were sent in the original request (BTW is that a bad idea?).

I'm using the UriBuilder class to create those links. My function looks like this:

private static URI createUri(String endpoint, 
    MultivaluedMap<String, String> queryParameters) {
    final UriBuilder uriBuilder = UriBuilder.fromPath(endpoint);
    queryParameters.forEach(
        (key, valueList) -> valueList.forEach(
            value -> uriBuilder.queryParam(key, value)));
    return uriBuilder.build();
}

Now, I don't want the parameters in this links to be encoded, since they should be readable by whoever is going to use the API. the problem is that UriBuilder.queryParam() seams to always encode them.

I could simply concatenate the parameters to the endpoint but I feel that this would be to reinvent the wheel. So I'm wondering if there's a better way to do it.

Answer 1

uriBuilder.build(false).toUriString()