Curl --data-urlencode does not encode name of the data of the form name=content

Added new function using jq filter to encode custom string

Author: Sandeep parmar

snippets/curl/get_nb_images.sh

@@ -84,7 +84,10 @@ data=$(jq --arg name $username --arg pass $password --arg dname $domainname --ar
 jwt=$(curl -k -X POST $uri -H $content_header -d "$data" | jq --raw-output '.token')
 
 param1="filter=policyType eq 'Standard'"
-param2="page[limit]=10"
+
+### To use filter page[limit] in URI, The key 'page[limit]' must be url encoded already. ###
+### Curl --data-urlencode encodes only the content part of the data of the form 'name=content' ###
+param2="$(uriencode 'page[limit]')=10" #op: page%5Blimit%5D=10
 
 ##############jobs##############
 

snippets/curl/get_nb_jobs.sh

@@ -67,12 +67,17 @@ parseArguments()
 	fi
 }
 
+uriencode()
+{ 
+	jq -nr --arg v "$1" '$v|@uri'; 
+}
+
 ###############main#############
 
 parseArguments "$@"
 
 basepath="https://$master_server:$port/netbackup"
-content_header='content-type:application/json'
+content_header='content-type:application/json;charset=utf-8'
 
 ##############login#############
 
@@ -84,14 +89,17 @@ data=$(jq --arg name $username --arg pass $password --arg dname $domainname --ar
 jwt=$(curl -k -X POST $uri -H $content_header -d "$data" | jq --raw-output '.token')
 
 param1="filter=jobType eq 'BACKUP'"
-param2="page[limit]=10"
+
+### To use filter page[limit] in URI, The key 'page[limit]' must be url encoded already. ###
+### Curl --data-urlencode encodes only the content part of the data of the form 'name=content' ###
+param2="$(uriencode 'page[limit]')=10" #op: page%5Blimit%5D=10
 
 ##############jobs##############
 
 auth_header="authorization:$jwt"
 uri="$basepath/admin/jobs"
 
-curl --insecure --request GET --globoff --get $uri  -H $content_header -H $auth_header \
+curl --verbose --insecure --request GET  --get $uri  -H $content_header -H $auth_header \
 	--data-urlencode "$param1" \
 	--data-urlencode "$param2" \
 	| \