Path variable having special characters like # in Spring boot-CodePudding

I'm using Spring Boot 2.4.6. For delete APIs getting 405 method not found. My endpoint is like: beauty/v1/sites/addressTemplates/:templateId

Path variable: #@$%#

Can someone please suggest what can be done to make this behavior as not complaining for 405? Please direct me to other questions in case I'm missing something.

CodePudding user response：

I guess that your issue has nothing to do with Spring. Maybe you are trying to compose the whole URL by using reserved characters.

In a URL, a hash mark, number sign, or pound sign ( # ) points a browser to a specific spot in a page or website. It is used to separate the URI of an object from a fragment identifier. Source.

Which means that an URL which looks like:

beauty/v1/sites/addressTemplates/#@$%#

is not exactly what you imagine it to be because # is interpreted in a special way. What you have to do is to percent encode the "special" path variable so it will look like this at the end:

beauty/v1/sites/addressTemplates/#@$%#

Then Spring will not complain anymore and will resolve properly the endpoint.