Specify raw query string when using WebTarget

Question

I'm working with a large existing project, which utilises javax.ws.rs.client.WebTarget to talk to RESTful API. The API is developed by a third party and I have no control over it. I need to make a request in the following format:

https://end.point.url/endpoint/id?data

Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to specify such request using WebTarget. I tried using path("endpoint/id?data"), but this gets converted into endpoint/id%3Fdata and I get 404 back. I tried using queryParam specifying empty value, which gets me endpoint/id?data= - which results in error required parameter data missing.

What other option is there? Replacing WebTarget with something else isn't feasible, as it is all over the large project.

Answer 1

First, related question: Url encoding issue with Jersey Client

After quite a bit of research, it seems that the only way to do it is to specify the entire uri when the WebTarget is created, like so:

Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient().register(authFeature);
WebTarget webTarget = client.target("https://end.point.url/endpoint/id?data")