java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol on URL based on a string modified with URLEncoder

Question

So I was attempting to use this String in a URL :-

http://site-test.com/Meetings/IC/DownloadDocument?meetingId=c21c905c-8359-4bd6-b864-844709e05754&item         


        

Answer 1

Thanks to Erhun's answer I finally realised that my JSON mapper was returning the quotation marks around my data too! I needed to use "asText()" instead of "toString()"

It's not an uncommon issue - one's brain doesn't see anything wrong with the correct data, surrounded by quotes!

discoveryJson.path("some_endpoint").toString();
"https://what.the.com/heck"

discoveryJson.path("some_endpoint").asText();
https://what.the.com/heck