diff --git a/clients/java/src/main/java/marquez/client/MarquezPathV1.java b/clients/java/src/main/java/marquez/client/MarquezPathV1.java
index 2ceba79f9e..7145a882f5 100644
--- a/clients/java/src/main/java/marquez/client/MarquezPathV1.java
+++ b/clients/java/src/main/java/marquez/client/MarquezPathV1.java
@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@
 package marquez.client;
 
 import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
-import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
-import java.net.URLEncoder;
-import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import com.google.common.net.UrlEscapers;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
@@ -57,11 +55,7 @@ Converts path template (prepended with BASE_PATH), where path parts are separate
   }
 
   static String encode(String input) {
-    try {
-      return URLEncoder.encode(input, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.toString());
-    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
-      throw new MarquezClientException(e);
-    }
+    return UrlEscapers.urlPathSegmentEscaper().escape(input);
   }
 
   static String listNamespacesPath() {
diff --git a/clients/java/src/test/java/marquez/client/MarquezHttpTest.java b/clients/java/src/test/java/marquez/client/MarquezHttpTest.java
index 9eeef4ee4c..cded97388a 100644
--- a/clients/java/src/test/java/marquez/client/MarquezHttpTest.java
+++ b/clients/java/src/test/java/marquez/client/MarquezHttpTest.java
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ public void testClient_preservesBaseURL() throws Exception {
   public void testClient_properlyFormatsNamespaces() throws Exception {
     final String pathTemplate = "/namespaces/%s";
     final String pathArg = "database://localhost:1234";
-    final String path = "/namespaces/database%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A1234";
+    final String path = "/namespaces/database:%2F%2Flocalhost:1234";
 
     URL expected = new URL(BASE_URL + BASE_PATH + path);
     URL actual = marquezUrl.from(path(pathTemplate, pathArg));
diff --git a/clients/java/src/test/java/marquez/client/MarquezPathV1Test.java b/clients/java/src/test/java/marquez/client/MarquezPathV1Test.java
index f7076ccc30..336882c956 100644
--- a/clients/java/src/test/java/marquez/client/MarquezPathV1Test.java
+++ b/clients/java/src/test/java/marquez/client/MarquezPathV1Test.java
@@ -23,17 +23,26 @@ void testPath_namespaceUrl(String expected, String namespaceName) {
 
   private static Stream<Arguments> testPath_namespaceUrl() {
     return Stream.of(
-        Arguments.of("/api/v1/namespaces/s3%3A%2F%2Fbucket", "s3://bucket"),
-        Arguments.of("/api/v1/namespaces/bigquery%3A", "bigquery:"),
+        Arguments.of("/api/v1/namespaces/s3:%2F%2Fbucket", "s3://bucket"),
+        Arguments.of("/api/v1/namespaces/bigquery:", "bigquery:"),
         Arguments.of("/api/v1/namespaces/usual-namespace-name", "usual-namespace-name"),
-        Arguments.of("/api/v1/namespaces/a%3A%5C%3Aa", "a:\\:a"));
+        Arguments.of("/api/v1/namespaces/a:%5C:a", "a:\\:a"));
   }
 
-  @Test
-  void testPath_datasetUrl() {
-    Assertions.assertEquals(
-        "/api/v1/namespaces/s3%3A%2F%2Fbuckets/datasets/source-file.json",
-        MarquezPathV1.datasetPath("s3://buckets", "source-file.json"));
+  @ParameterizedTest
+  @MethodSource
+  void testPath_datasetUrl(String expected, String namespaceName, String datasetName) {
+    Assertions.assertEquals(expected, MarquezPathV1.datasetPath(namespaceName, datasetName));
+  }
+
+  private static Stream<Arguments> testPath_datasetUrl() {
+    return Stream.of(
+        Arguments.of(
+            "/api/v1/namespaces/s3:%2F%2Fbucket/datasets/source-file.json",
+            "s3://bucket", "source-file.json"),
+        Arguments.of(
+            "/api/v1/namespaces/snowflake:%2F%2Faccount/datasets/DATABASE.SCHEMA.%22Exotic%20Table%20Name!%22",
+            "snowflake://account", "DATABASE.SCHEMA.\"Exotic Table Name!\""));
   }
 
   @Test