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> Begin forwarded message:
>
> Subject: Re: ZnUrl issue
> From: Sven Van Caekenberghe <
[hidden email]>
> Date: 5 Mar 2015 09:55:46 CET
> To: Gerhard Obermann <
[hidden email]>
>
> Hi Gerhard,
>
>> On 05 Mar 2015, at 08:36, Gerhard Obermann <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi sven,
>>
>> We are using Zinc (Gemstone) to access a restful interface.
>>
>> I didnt find a solution to send an url with german characters like "öäü".
>> Am i missing something?
>>
>> All such tests fails:
>>
>> ZnUrl fromString: '%F6lo'.
>> ZnUrl fromString: 'ölo'.
>> ZnUrl fromString: 'ölo' encodeAsUTF8 asString.
>>
>> json := (client := ZnClient new)
>> url: url;
>> accept: ZnMimeType applicationJson;
>> contentReader: [ :entity | | parserClass |
>> parserClass := Smalltalk at: #JSJsonParser.
>> parserClass parse: entity contents ];
>> ifFail: [:ex | ^ self error: 'HTTP request failed!' ];
>> get.
>>
>> Regards Gerhard
>
> This goes like this (in Pharo 4):
>
> 'ä' utf8Encoded hex => 'c3a4'
>
> '
http://de.wikipedia.de/wiki/Enzyklop%C3%A4die' asZnUrl.
>
> ZnUrl new
> scheme: #http;
> host: 'de.wikipedia.de';
> addPathSegment: #wiki;
> addPathSegment: 'Enzyklopädie';
> yourself.
>
> Check the class comment: the print & parse forms are encoded, while the components & accessors are not.
>
> Does this work for you ?
>
> Sven
Gerhard solved his use case as follows:
ZnUrl new
scheme: #http;
host: 'dev.virtualearth.net';
addPathSegments: #('REST' 'v1' 'Locations');
queryAt: 'query' add: 'Jägerstraße';
yourself.
Sven