"API-1021 : Could not construct response.." error when lookup value IDs have forward slash

Products

• Clarity PPM On Premise
• Clarity PPM SaaS

Issue/Introduction

Some lookups are not working in the New / Modern User Experience (UX / UI). 

Error: API-1021 : Could not construct response. Unsupported character(s) found in the path component.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open a system, static lookup or create a user-defined static lookup with an attribute on the Project Object (or any object accessible in Modern UX)
2. Create a value in it with Name as "Test" and ID as "test/test"
3. Navigate to the Modern UX Projects list page
4. Pick "Project Type" filter

Expected Results: It is possible to pick values from which to filter the Project List

Actual Results: Error 'API-1021 : Could not construct response. Unsupported character(s) found in the path component.' gets thrown in the UI.

Environment

Version: 15.x

Cause

This issue is caused due to a defect - DE48189.

Resolution

Fixed in version 15.9.0.

Additional Information

Accompanied by the following error in the app-ca.log (Note the lookup ID from step 2 being logged here):

"

ERROR 2019-03-12 08:57:28,863 [http-nio-80-exec-75] ppm.rest (clarity:admin:5194048__7470BBC6-7899-40D2-8BCA-9E00C6AC0A9A:PPM_REST_API) JSONResponseBuilder :: Found path sensitive chars while appending path component[http://generichostname/ppm/rest/v1/lookups/OBJ_IDEA_PROJECT_TYPE/lookupValues] to url[test/test]

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