Hi Nick,
In MATLAB, when using the "matlab.net.http.RequestMessage" class for HTTP requests, URL encoding (such as converting spaces to %20) is a standard procedure to ensure that URLs are valid and conform to the appropriate specifications. However, as you've noticed, this can cause issues when you receive a URL from the server that's already encoded, and MATLAB tries to re-encode it.
Unfortunately, MATLAB's HTTP interface doesn't provide a built-in option to disable automatic URL encoding in the send method of "matlab.net.http.RequestMessage". The send method automatically applies encoding to ensure that the URL is valid according to standard URL encoding rules.
To handle this, you can manually decode the URL received from the server before passing it to the send method. Although it might seem counterintuitive, this ensures that MATLAB will encode the URL only once.
Your current approach using "strrep" to replace "%20" with spaces is one way to do it, but a more robust method is to use MATLAB's "urldecode" function, which can decode all percent-encoded characters, not just spaces. This is useful if your URLs contain other encoded characters.
Here's how you can modify your code to include URL decoding:
% Your existing setup
request = matlab.net.http.RequestMessage();
request.Method = options.method;
request.Header = [ ...
matlab.net.http.field.ContentTypeField('application/json'), ...
matlab.net.http.field.AcceptField('application/json'), ...
matlab.net.http.field.AuthorizationField('Authorization', ['Bearer ' PAT]), ...
];
httpOptions = matlab.net.http.HTTPOptions('ResponseTimeout', remoteOperationTimeOut);
% Sending the first request
[response, completedRequest] = request.send(finalPoint, httpOptions);
% Assuming you receive nextPageLink from the server
nextPageLink = response.Body.Data.nextPageLink; % Example, adjust according to your actual response structure
% Decode the URL received from the server
decodedNextPageLink = urldecode(nextPageLink);
% Send the next request
[nextResponse, nextCompletedRequest] = request.send(decodedNextPageLink, httpOptions);
This code snippet assumes that you're receiving nextPageLink in the response body and it's already URL encoded. The "urldecode" function will decode it back to its original form, ensuring that when it's passed to "request.send", MATLAB only encodes it once.
Hope this helps!
