[SOLVED] Twitter RestAPI call from java using space and OR

Twitter RestAPI call from java using space and OR

In this link, it has been explained how to use the Twitter search API, for example: Your search URL is:

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=superman OR spiderman&result_type=recent

when I do a GET call using the link from POSTMAN (setting OAuth 1 params)it works fine, but when i do the same GET call from JAVA, it gives me the following error:

Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in query at index 57: https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=superman OR spiderman&result_type=recent
at java.net.URI$Parser.fail(URI.java:2848)
at java.net.URI$Parser.checkChars(URI.java:3021)

it works fine if i just search with one word without space and OR.

Solution

It sounds like you need to encode the URL properly. For instance a space character must be replaced with %20. Here is a table of encodings. Really, you should use a built in function. See this thread.