RESTAssured disable URL encoding not working correctly

Question

I am testing a HTTP Post request with an URL like following:

https://myurl.com/api/logs/%2Fvar%2Flog%2Fmessages?Api-Token=12332429nmdsafs

I have URL encoding disabled and here my post request:

RestAssured.given()
.contentType(JSON)
.log()
.all()
.urlEncodingEnabled(false)
.baseUri(RestAssured.baseURI)
.basePath(url)
.pathParam(LOG_PATH_PARAM_NAME, urlEncodeString(requireNonNull(logPath)))
.body(myJsonBody)
.when()
.post("/logs/{logPath}")
.then()
.statusCode(OK.getStatusCode());

I also tried it like this:

RestAssured.given()
.contentType(JSON)
.log()
.all()
.urlEncodingEnabled(false)
.baseUri(RestAssured.baseURI)
.basePath(url)
.body(myJsonBody)
.when()
.post("/logs/" + urlEncodeString(requireNonNull(logPath)))
.then()
.statusCode(OK.getStatusCode());

And here the urlEncodeString method:

private static String urlEncodeString(String value) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
        return URLEncoder.encode(value, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name()).replaceAll("\\+", "%20");
    }

The problem now is that my URL mentioned above gets encoded to following:

https://myurl.com/api/logs/var/log/messages?Api-Token=12332429nmdsafs

Does anyone know what is wrong here? Or knows a workaround? I already tried to double escape the path.

EDIT:

I just found out that disabling URL encoding only works for the URL parameters.

Answer 1

Although you are correct that given().urlEncodingEnabled(isEnabled).spec()... will only disable encoding for URL parameters, you can also do the same for the URL itself using

RequestSpecification mySpec = new RequestSpecBuilder().setUrlEncodingEnabled(false)

For example, if I want to make a get request to this (exact) URL without encoding it http://api.cheapbooks.com/mathbooks/location/$amazonbooks%2Fscience%2Fmath

The default behavior of RestAssured will double encode the URL to this: http://api.cheapbooks.com/mathbooks/location/%24amazonbook%252Fscience%2Fmath

But if you create a RequestSpecification like the mySpec above, where setUrlEncodingEnabled(false) and you make a http request by either doing :

given().spec(mySpec)...

or

spec.setBaseUri(...)

You should get the desired result this way