Can't fetch data from NSURL - iphone

Question

I am fetching result from google place search url, if I search for "Newyork", everything works fine. But if I give "New york", the result json is different and I can't take it in NSData.
This is the url I am using:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=New york&sensor=true&key=MY_KEY
I am using below code to fetch the data:
NSURL *googleURL = [NSURL URLWithString:url]; //url is above url
NSURLResponse *response;
NSData *data;
NSError *error;
data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest: [NSURLRequest
requestWithURL: googleURL] returningResponse: &response error: &error];
NSLog(#"data %#",data); // but I am getting null here
How to overcome this? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Assuming that url is:
NSString *url = #"https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=New york&sensor=true&key=MY_KEY";
Try using this:
NSURL *googleURL = [NSURL URLWithString:[url stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
This will format the string for URLs containing spaces. To confirm it is working, print it out to the console.
NSLog(#"URL with Percent Escapes: %#", [url stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]);
It should return something like this (I believe the percent escape for a space is %20).
URL with Percent Escapes: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=New%20york&sensor=true&key=MY_KEY