Url encoding paths

[bjstubbs]

Do we want to auto-encode paths/char inputs to the apis?

example:

library(AnVIL)
library(httr)
library(jsonlite)

mypath="github.com/vjcitn/vardemo/AnnotatingWGSVariantsWithBioc"
mypath
[1] "github.com/vjcitn/vardemo/AnnotatingWGSVariantsWithBioc"

#this fails because of the "/"'s
fromJSON(content(dockstore$getPublishedWorkflowByPath(mypath),"text"))
$code
[1] 404

$message
[1] "HTTP 404 Not Found"

mypath2=URLencode(mypath,reserve=TRUE)
mypath2
[1] "github.com%2Fvjcitn%2Fvardemo%2FAnnotatingWGSVariantsWithBioc"
fromJSON(content(dockstore$getPublishedWorkflowByPath(mypath2),"text"))
$aliases
NULL

$author
[1] ""

$checker_id
NULL

$dbCreateDate
[1] 1.549286e+12

$dbUpdateDate
[1] 1.549296e+12

$defaultTestParameterFilePath
NULL

$defaultVersion
NULL

$description
NULL

$descriptorType
[1] "wdl"

$email
[1] ""

$full_workflow_path
[1] "github.com/vjcitn/vardemo/AnnotatingWGSVariantsWithBioc"

[mtmorgan]

This is a good idea but I don't know how to implement this cleanly / generally. Is it helpful (or only confusing?) to provide an encode() function to wrap URLencode(reserved=TRUE) ?