Spring Cloud Openfeign Do not encode path variable

We have the following feign client

public interface MyServiceClient {

    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, value = "/item/{itemKey}")
    Item getItem (@PathVariable("itemKey") String itemKey);

the items can contains special characters like : or :: which are being encoded and the Request URL becomes something like https://myservice.com/item/a%3Ab%3A%3Ac rather than https://myservice.com/item/a:b::c

Can anyone help me understand how can I overcome this issue?

Comment From: robrtj

Same issue is open in openFeign project: https://github.com/OpenFeign/feign/issues/1190 You can find workaround there. Unfortunetelly there is no pretty solution.

Comment From: OlgaMaciaszek

Closing in favour of https://github.com/OpenFeign/feign/issues/1190.