CONTAP-675455: Cloning file fails from RESTAPI if the filename contains .snapshot

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Issue

When the file contains the string ".snapshot" within it's file name, the file clone operation from RESTAPI fails:

[root@rhel1 rest_copy]# curl -ku admin:xxx -X POST "https://cluster1/api/storage/file/clone" -d '{"volume.name": "vtest", "source_path": "/rest_copy/file.snapshot.txt", "volume.uuid": "96185d7f-2776-11f1-90d4-0050569ce84e", "overwrite_destination": "true", "destination_path": "/rest_copy/file.snapshot.dst"}'
{
  "job": {
    "uuid": "0ebdd062-2864-11f1-90d4-0050569ce84e",
    "_links": {
      "self": {
        "href": "/api/cluster/jobs/0ebdd062-2864-11f1-90d4-0050569ce84e"
      }
    }
  }
}
[root@rhel1 rest_copy]# curl -ku admin:Netapp1! -X GET "https://cluster1/api/cluster/jobs/0ebdd062-2864-11f1-90d4-0050569ce84e"
{
  "uuid": "0ebdd062-2864-11f1-90d4-0050569ce84e",
  "description": "POST /api/storage/file/clone/vtest/96185d7f-2776-11f1-90d4-0050569ce84e/%2Frest_copy%2Ffile.snapshot.txt/%2Frest_copy%2Ffile.snapshot.dst",
  "state": "failure",
  "message": "\"source-path\" is a required field",
  "code": 2,
  "start_time": "2026-03-25T16:02:43+00:00",
  "end_time": "2026-03-25T16:02:43+00:00",
  "error": {
    "message": "\"source-path\" is a required field",
    "code": "2"
  },
  "_links": {
    "self": {
      "href": "/api/cluster/jobs/0ebdd062-2864-11f1-90d4-0050569ce84e"
    }
  }

Same clone operation from clustershell works:

cluster1::> file clone create -source-path /vol/vtest/rest_copy/file.snapshot.txt -destination-path /vol/vtest/rest_copy/file.snapshot_cli.txt
cluster1::>
# File from client:
[root@rhel1 rest_copy]# ls -trl *cli*
-rw-r--r--. 1 nobody nobody 1260 Mar 27 08:35 file.snapshot_cli.txt