nysenate/OpenLegislation

Status 400 on previously working query

Closed this issue · 3 comments

foggy1 commented

Previously, after a server update, the following query started requiring the wildcard for nested data, and has worked since.

"http://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2013/search?term=\*voteType:%27FLOOR%27%20AND%20year:2014&key=***"

I just checked our app, though, and this call is now being met with a status 400. Did something else change in elastic search?

kzalewski commented

Hi Austin,

I just checked this API call using the exact URL that you provided (but replacing "***" with a valid API key), and it worked fine. I received a proper JSON response from the server.

Can you try it again.

foggy1 commented

It looks like the call is now being much pickier about the escape for the wildcard itself being valid URI now. When it changes to %5C it seems to work. Let me change the codebase and see if this is all that it was.

foggy1 commented

... yup that appears to be it. Good grief, note to self: if the project breaks in any way, it's this darn wildcard.