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nonenonenone123
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Oct 23, 2015

iControl REST $filter processing not HTTP compliant?

I'm trying to get objects over iControl REST using python "requests". The expected method would be something like:   r = requests.session() r.get('https://tmhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/node', params={'$filte...
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Oct 23, 2015

I think you will need to pass the params as a string, though its not pretty. i.e. 

r.get('https://tmhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/node', params='$filter=name eq NODENAME')

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    nonenonenone123
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    Oct 26, 2015
    That is indeed really unpleasant. Do you know if this is a known limitation, bug, or similar?
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    Brad_Parker
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    Oct 26, 2015
    Its not a bug, its the design of the iControl REST api. I don't know that there is a plan to allow URL encoding or not. Many frameworks are more than happy to not use URL encoding for REST.