Scraping fails if API name contains special character (for ex. &)

[sandormedzi]

Prometheus Exporter version
1.0.2

API-Gateway Version
7.7.20220830

Actual behavior

In sandbox where there are just a few APIs, the exporter runs as intended, but on other plattform, where we have much more APIs, if the API name contains an "&" character, the following error occurs (and then the container shuts down):

1684832542297 ERROR [timer: timer-1] [request-id: **] Get service metrics (axway-api-management.4) Error getting API-Gateway metrics: 'timeline?timeline=10m&metricGroupType=Service&name=removed & removed&metricType=successes&metricType=failures&metricType=exceptions&metricType=numMessages&metricType=processingTimeAvg' from Admin-Node-Manager. Request sent to: ******. Response-Code: 403
1684832542301 ERROR [timer: timer-1] [request-id: **] Shutdown (power.1) [object Object] (Error-Code: 99)

Even if we rename the API from "something & something" to "something and something" the exporter still fails, as

Expected behavior
API name should not cause errors (I understand that the & sign is very special here, but even if we rename,

Test case sample
scrape any GW where there are APIs with "&" in name