Created question in FIWARE Q/A platform on 19-11-2015 at 12:11
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Question:
Can't use parenthesis ( ) in an entity's attribute value

Description:
I've been experimenting with Orion the last few days and and after a while I made it work the way I intended to.

I am facing an unexpected annoyance though, where a string attribute for a given entity context will fail to register.

Example:

http POST [my_orion_server_url]:1026/v1/updateContext < create_push.json

Where create_push.json is:

{
"contextElements": [
{
"type": "Push",
"isPattern": "false",
"id": "Push1",
"attributes": [

]
}
],
"updateAction": "APPEND"
}

The server replies with:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 129
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:47:03 GMT

{
"errorCode":

}

If, on the other hand, I remove the parenthesis, everything works as expected:

json file:

{
"contextElements": [
{
"type": "Push",
"isPattern": "false",
"id": "Push1",
"attributes": [

]
}
],
"updateAction": "APPEND"
}

Server response:

{
"contextResponses": [
{
"contextElement": {
"attributes": [

],
"id": "Push1",
"isPattern": "false",
"type": "Push"
},
"statusCode":

}
]
}

Is this intended or a bug?

I can overcome the issue coding the parenthesis with something else and then decoding on reception, but being able to send a parenthesis straight with the entity would be way smoother and less annoying.