I have a list of values on screen that as the user is typing will be filtered options. If the user wants to view all the records he will type:?;
Then my rest call will be: myserver / fetch /?
From what I understand, this "?" is interpreted as the beginning of the variable declaration, however I wanted to capture the "?" to see if I should return all records.
My question is if I have to just send the question mark somehow or I would have to give a replace and send a "*" maybe ..
If you really want to follow the REST specification, a GET request with no parameters for the endpoint should result in the return of all records.
meuservidor/buscar
It will result in the complete list.
Let's say that one element of your search is the collection Animal . You can then return the element as part of the path:
meuservidor/buscar/animal
But if you want to pass search parameters (not an element specification), use querystring (literally question string ):
meuservidor/buscar?nome=gato
To return all records whose nome q property is equal to gato , or
meuservidor/buscar/animal?nome=gato
To return all records in the animal collection whose nome property is equal to gato .
Can you use the "?" in the URL, but you would have to replace it with your encoding: % 3F . In that case, your URL would be:
meuservidor/buscar/%3F
Similar behavior is adopted when the URL has spaces.