Issue with RAW() function for passwords with Ampersand for master endpoint in apache camel

It appears that the cause is somewhere around: io.fabric8.camel.MasterComponent#createEndpoint - which recreates the URI for the child/wrapped component from the parsed paramters Which is invoked by: org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultComponent#createEndpoint(java.lang.String) After it has parsed the URI parameters and resolved the escaped RAW parameter values using: org.apache.camel.util.URISupport#resolveRawParameterValues This means that when the child component parses the URI it will fail if the (no longer escaped) value contains problematic characters (such as an ampersand) The workaround we are currently using is to double escape anything in a master component URI, e.g. master: //mname:sftp://myhost/inbox?password=RAW(RAW(beforeAmpersand&afterAmpersand))&username=jdoe