2691670 - ODATA API: Searching Special Characters

This document has been created to outline the standardized methods of filtering OData API output based values that contain special characters.

You perform Odata API Request and are performing $filter= operation on a field in which the value contains special characters:

Example Response (JSON):

Result:

{

    "error": {

        "code": "ServerErrorException",

        "message": {

            "lang": "en-US",

            "value": "String index out of range: 68"

        }

    }

}

Example Response (XML):

<error>
      <code>ServerErrorException</code>
      <message>
            <lang>en-US</lang>
            <value>String index out of range: 68</value>
      </message>
</error>

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