URLEncoder.java

/* URLEncoder.java -- Class to convert strings to a properly encoded URL
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package java.net;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;


/*
 * Written using on-line Java Platform 1.2/1.4 API Specification, as well
 * as "The Java Class Libraries", 2nd edition (Addison-Wesley, 1998).
 * Status:  Believed complete and correct.
 */

/**
 * This utility class contains static methods that converts a
 * string into a fully encoded URL string in x-www-form-urlencoded
 * format.  This format replaces certain disallowed characters with
 * encoded equivalents.  All upper case and lower case letters in the
 * US alphabet remain as is, the space character (' ') is replaced with
 * '+' sign, and all other characters are converted to a "%XX" format
 * where XX is the hexadecimal representation of that character in a
 * certain encoding (by default, the platform encoding, though the
 * standard is "UTF-8").
 * <p>
 * This method is very useful for encoding strings to be sent to CGI scripts
 *
 * @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com)
 * @author Warren Levy (warrenl@cygnus.com)
 * @author Mark Wielaard (mark@klomp.org)
 */
public class URLEncoder
{
  /**
   * This method translates the passed in string into x-www-form-urlencoded
   * format using the default encoding.  The standard encoding is
   * "UTF-8", and the two-argument form of this method should be used
   * instead.
   *
   * @param s The String to convert
   *
   * @return The converted String
   *
   * @deprecated
   */
  public static String encode(String s)
  {
    try
      {
	// We default to 8859_1 for compatibility with the same
	// default elsewhere in the library.
	return encode(s, System.getProperty("file.encoding", "8859_1"));
      }
    catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uee)
      {
	// Should never happen since default should always be supported
	return s;
      }
  }

  /**
   * This method translates the passed in string into x-www-form-urlencoded
   * format using the character encoding to hex-encode the unsafe characters.
   *
   * @param s The String to convert
   * @param encoding The encoding to use for unsafe characters
   *
   * @return The converted String
   *
   * @exception UnsupportedEncodingException If the named encoding is not
   * supported
   *
   * @since 1.4
   */
  public static String encode(String s, String encoding)
    throws UnsupportedEncodingException
  {
    int length = s.length();
    int start = 0;
    int i = 0;

    StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(length);
    while (true)
      {
	while (i < length && isSafe(s.charAt(i)))
	  i++;

	// Safe character can just be added
	result.append(s.substring(start, i));

	// Are we done?
	if (i >= length)
	  return result.toString();
	else if (s.charAt(i) == ' ')
	  {
	    result.append('+'); // Replace space char with plus symbol.
	    i++;
	  }
	else
	  {
	    // Get all unsafe characters
	    start = i;
	    char c;
	    while (i < length && (c = s.charAt(i)) != ' ' && ! isSafe(c))
	      i++;

	    // Convert them to %XY encoded strings
	    String unsafe = s.substring(start, i);
	    byte[] bytes = unsafe.getBytes(encoding);
	    for (int j = 0; j < bytes.length; j++)
	      {
		result.append('%');
		int val = bytes[j];
		result.append(hex.charAt((val & 0xf0) >> 4));
		result.append(hex.charAt(val & 0x0f));
	      }
	  }
	start = i;
      }
  }

  /**
   * Private static method that returns true if the given char is either
   * a uppercase or lowercase letter from 'a' till 'z', or a digit froim
   * '0' till '9', or one of the characters '-', '_', '.' or '*'. Such
   * 'safe' character don't have to be url encoded.
   */
  private static boolean isSafe(char c)
  {
    return ((c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') || (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z')
           || (c >= '0' && c <= '9') || c == '-' || c == '_' || c == '.'
           || c == '*');
  }

  /**
   * Private constructor that does nothing. Included to avoid a default
   * public constructor being created by the compiler.
   */
  private URLEncoder()
  {
  }

  /**
   * Used to convert to hex.  We don't use Integer.toHexString, since
   * it converts to lower case (and the Sun docs pretty clearly
   * specify upper case here), and because it doesn't provide a
   * leading 0.
   */
  private static final String hex = "0123456789ABCDEF";
}