URI how to properly enconde query strings

[sacred summit]

I am very new to zig, I was trying to make a simple http request to get a json.
Here is a snippet of the code:

const uri = try std.Uri.parse(url);
const response = try client.fetch(.{ .method = .GET, .location = .{ .uri = uri }, .extra_headers = headers, .response_writer = writer });

if I provide a valid url without spaces, the request returns successfully, but if I provide something like ?search=hello world it fails. I was hoping it would encode the url properly before sending.

I could of course do it myself before parsing it, but I was hoping there would be a better way to do it.

Please be kind, these have been my first 6 hours using the language. 😄

[dense pivot]

the result of std.Uri.parse assumes that you've given it a mostly valid url. A hacky way would be to just tell zig that the query is not percent encoded by say,

var uri = try std.Uri.parse(url);
uri.query = .{ .raw = uri.query.?.percent_encoded };

Alternatively, just don't give the parser an invalid url and pre-escape your spaces.

[sacred summit]

Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately

uri.query = .{ .raw = uri.query.?.percent_encoded };

doesn't work "error: cannot assign to constant"

I could just escape the spaces, but this is not just about the spaces, is more about properly encode the url string for instance "Günter" -> "G%C3%BCnter".

The only thing I could find was std.fmt.encodePercent, but it looks like it has been removed.

[dense pivot]

error: cannot assign to constant
thats what the var uri was for

You can always construct the Uri in segments yourself using .raw components, which will be percent encoded for you

[sacred summit]

I tried that too but it causes a panic
panic: access of union field 'percent_encoded' while field 'raw' is active

[daring tree]

you cant uri.percent_encoded = ...
you have to uri = .{ .percent_encoded = ...}
the first is assigning to a union field, which is safety checked that the specified field is the active one.
the seccond is creating a new uri then asigning it to the var.