# API does not return double quotes in path property
**URL:** https://community.dremio.com/t/api-does-not-return-double-quotes-in-path-property/8462
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [December 8, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/api-does-not-return-double-quotes-in-path-property/8462 "2021-12-08T15:51:58Z")
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### Author:  [@ben\_dy](https://community.dremio.com/u/ben_dy)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/api-does-not-return-double-quotes-in-path-property/8462/1 "2021-12-08T15:51:58Z")
Whenever I make an API request to the `catalog` endpoint, I receive an object that looks like this [response](https://docs.dremio.com/rest-api/catalog/get-catalog-id/#response).
That response does not include information about where double quotes (") need to be included on the path property in order to be used with services like intake\_dremio or other plugins.
From what I’ve seen, double quotes can surround anything depending on some internal Dremio protocol.
Is there a way to know where the double quotes belong around the path?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@ben\_dy](https://community.dremio.com/u/ben_dy)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/api-does-not-return-double-quotes-in-path-property/8462/2 "2021-12-08T16:21:46Z")
Update: It appears that there is information about escaped double quotes in [this response?](https://docs.dremio.com/rest-api/catalog/get-catalog-id/#response-1)
Looks like the information is stored in the “children” property.
Is there a reason why the escaped quotes don’t show on the response of a virtual data set?
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### Author:  [@doron](https://community.dremio.com/u/doron)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/api-does-not-return-double-quotes-in-path-property/8462/3 "2021-12-08T16:24:46Z")
The REST API doesn’t require any escaping of paths since it uses lists. SQL however does, for example:
```auto
select * from Samples."samples.dremio.com"."zip_lookup.csv"
```
Because some of the path entities contains the path seperator (`.`), you need to provide `"` around `samples.dremio.com` and `zip_lookup.csv`.
In fact, you can just put `"` around each part of the path and you should be fine.
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### Author:  [@ben\_dy](https://community.dremio.com/u/ben_dy)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/api-does-not-return-double-quotes-in-path-property/8462/4 "2021-12-15T18:09:32Z")
Unfortunately, using double quotes around each part of the path did not solve my issue.
Is there a way to return the exact area the quotes need to go using the Dremio API?
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### Author:  [@doron](https://community.dremio.com/u/doron)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/api-does-not-return-double-quotes-in-path-property/8462/5 "2021-12-15T18:53:38Z")
How are you running SQL in Dremio exactly?
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### Author:  [@ben\_dy](https://community.dremio.com/u/ben_dy)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/api-does-not-return-double-quotes-in-path-property/8462/6 "2021-12-15T19:34:56Z")
Basically, I use the Dremio API by sending a catalog ID with my request to gain information about a dataset.
I use the dataset path to execute SQL with plugins. Because the “quote” format isn’t included, the plugins break.
Is there a way to return the exact string format with the quotes from the Dremio API? Or should I look elsewhere (i.e. the plugin documentation) ?
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### Author:  [@doron](https://community.dremio.com/u/doron)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2021, 8:11pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/api-does-not-return-double-quotes-in-path-property/8462/7 "2021-12-15T20:11:28Z")
Which plugin are you using? If its a third party library, you would need to consult with them.
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### Author:  [@ben\_dy](https://community.dremio.com/u/ben_dy)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/api-does-not-return-double-quotes-in-path-property/8462/8 "2022-08-24T14:23:00Z")
Update: We had to work with the third party library to allow double quotes around all parts of the dremio path. Dremio does not have a way to return where the double quotes belong.