Olivier,
Spaces arenât allowed in URLs at all.
A browser will typically percent-encode them (if typed in address bar) as %20.
pchar-no-SQUOTE = unreserved / pct-encoded-no-SQUOTE / other-delims / "$" / "&" / "=" / ":" / "@"
This only allows spaces from pct-encoded-no-SQUOTE, so space must be encoded as %20.
From: odata-comment@lists.oasis-open.org <odata-comment@lists.oasis-open.org>
On Behalf Of Olivier Trempe
Sent: Friday, 19 November 2021 9:59 am
To: odata-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [odata-comment] ABNF 4.01 bug?
Hi,
Looking at the ABNF construction rules, I did not find the rule allowing the following construct:
$filter=contains(propertyName, 'A substring with spaces')
where the substring may contain spaces.
The closer I found is this track starting from the contains method rule
containsMethodCallExpr -> commonExpr -> primitiveLiteral -> string
But the string doesn't allow for a space character:
string = SQUOTE *( SQUOTE-in-string / pchar-no-SQUOTE ) SQUOTE
Am I missing something? If so, could you point me to the construction rule allowing spaces in the contains' substring.
Thanks,
Olivier Trempe