Encoding of space in query

Hi

I have a problem. axios sends queries there space is encoded as + like

http://localhost:8080/abd/lucat/employees?search=Fredrik+Johansson&limit=10

and this results in an error from express-openapi-validator:

{"path":".query.search","message":"Parameter 'search' must be url encoded. It's value may not contain reserved characters."}

The line here includes + as a reserved character in queries https://github.com/cdimascio/express-openapi-validator/blob/master/src/middlewares/parsers/req.parameter.mutator.ts#L18

axios seems to working on this because even thou + is a standard is it several systems which don’t handle this. https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/2563

So how will you handle this?

[cdimascio]

In order to use reserved characters in query paramus, you can set allowReserved: true on the query parameter. https://swagger.io/docs/specification/describing-parameters/

e.g.

parameters:
  - in: query
    name: path
    required: true
    schema:
        type: string
    allowReserved: true    

[johandalabacka]

Very good. Thank you 😊❤️