Unable to decode form field data in karate framework [duplicate] - decode

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Karate: Query Param values are getting encoded
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I have recently learnt about Karate and it's awesome experience working on this.
I'm stuck at one problem and looked out for a solution from various websites but it didn't help
Scenario:
Given url "https://test.payu.in/_payment"
And form field surl = '/payu/web-response/17703721?appVersion=null&clientId=web-client/1.0'
When method POST
Then status 302
When we hit the above request the form field value is getting encoded as 'surl=%2Fpayu%2Fweb-response%2F17703721%3FappVersion%3Dnull%26clientId%3Dweb-client%2F1.0'
due to this request is failing
If you can provide me the solution it would be really helpfull
Solutions tried :
java.net.URLDecoder.decode('/payu/web-response/17703721?appVersion=null&clientId=web-client/1.0', 'UTF-8')
But no luck

Answer 1

Karate is doing the right thing. You can see for yourself using this 3-line Karate test:
* url 'https://httpbin.org/anything'
* form field foo = 'one/two?three=four'
* method post
You can see that the "raw" request is:
1 > POST https://httpbin.org/anything
1 > Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
1 > Content-Length: 28
1 > Host: httpbin.org
1 > Connection: Keep-Alive
1 > User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.13 (Java/11.0.11)
1 > Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
foo=one%2Ftwo%3Fthree%3Dfour
But in the response, you can see the server handled it correctly:
1 < 200
1 < Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 12:06:10 GMT
1 < Content-Type: application/json
1 < Content-Length: 513
1 < Connection: keep-alive
1 < Server: gunicorn/19.9.0
1 < Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
1 < Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
{
"args": {},
"data": "",
"files": {},
"form": {
"foo": "one/two?three=four"
},
"headers": {
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip,deflate",
"Content-Length": "28",
"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
"Host": "httpbin.org",
"User-Agent": "Apache-HttpClient/4.5.13 (Java/11.0.11)",
"X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-615d9132-260dcbf96f57a6992b6273dc"
},
"json": null,
"method": "POST",
"origin": "122.179.54.225",
"url": "https://httpbin.org/anything"
}
See the JSON field called form in the response.
I think you should do some research, or talk to your "server" team. Who knows, maybe Karate has found a bug for you.