Links To Xml Can't Handle Ampersands

[Stofolus]

We are trying to upgrade from 3.2.1-release to 3.2.3-sr3.5347 but we're running into a problem with some of the data urls.

 

If we have a link that it something like this http://mypage.com/getXML?id=a&b it's then encoded and the attributes are double encoded so the & turns into a %2526.

 

Still when it's sent to fusioncharts it's completely decoded and then everything is encoded once and the b is then translated as an extra parameter instead of a value.

 

Any ideas on how we can get around this issue?

[Guest Sumedh]

Hi,

 

Can you please explain the scenario, a bit more?

 

Where did you get this issue? Can you paste your sample code and XML here?

[Stofolus]

Hi,

 

Can you please explain the scenario, a bit more?

 

Where did you get this issue? Can you paste your sample code and XML here?

 

I run fc.setData("http://mypage.com/getXML?id=a%2526b");

 

And in the debug window i get

 

dataURL provided: http://mypage.com/getXML?id=a%2526b

 

dataURL invoked: http://mypage.com/getXML?id=a&b

 

since & is a parameter delimiter in the URL this will change the parameter list from

 

id: a&b

 

To

 

id: a

b:

 

so because of this the xml cannot be found.

 

It seems to be decoding the URL one to many times

[Guest Sumedh]

Hi,

 

Please send us the sample code, so that we can test.

[Stofolus]

Hi

 

I can't send you our code but here's the javascript we use:

 

var myChart8170 = new FusionCharts(
"/dev/FusionCharts/MSCombiDY2D.swf", 
"myChartId8170", 
"1111", 
"490", 
"1", 
"1",
   {wMode : "transparent"}
);
myChart8170.render("chartdiv8170");
myChart8170.setDataURL("[url="http://mypage.com/getXML?id=a%2526b"]http://mypage.com/getXML?id=a%2526b[/url]");

 

I can't get you any serverside code but what getXML does is take the parameter id and the value has to be "a&b" (without quotes). The problem is that it splits the value "a&b" at the &. Have in mind that this does work as it should in version 3.2.1

[Stofolus]

It seems that the forum added some url tags to my url, so you have to remove that

[Guest Sumedh]

Hi,

 

Please note, setDataURL method is a deprecated method.

 

Try using setXMLData method.

[Stofolus]

Hi,

 

Please note, setDataURL method is a deprecated method.

 

Try using setXMLData method.

 

We have that that too, it gives the same result. There isn't anything wrong with the way we're using fusioncharts because if we specify a URL without any special characters it works.

[Guest Sumedh]

Hi,

 

setXMLUrl JavaScript function of FusionCharts API is working fine for the URL : http://samplePage.php/getXML?id=a%2526b and returns the output as a&b.

 

So, could you please explain which method are you using to pass the URL with the value as a%2526b?