Java String Escape escapeUnsafeCharacters(String anyURI, boolean escapePercent)

Description

Escapes the "delim" and "unwise" characters as specified by rfc2396.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
anyURI	a parameter
escapePercent	- escapes '%' to it's hex value if true, ignores it otherwise.

Declaration

public static String escapeUnsafeCharacters(String anyURI, boolean escapePercent) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2005, 2012 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors://from   www .ja  va  2 s  . c o m
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;

public class Main {
    public static final String PERCENT = "%";
    protected static HashMap fCharToEscaped = new HashMap(15);

    /**
     * Escapes the "delim" and "unwise" characters as specified by rfc2396.  Also escapes the tilde (~) as this
     * also seems to cause problems with the XSD validator.  The characters are escaped using the UTF-8 hex
     * notation, %HH.
     *
     * To do undo this operation, call convertUriToNamespace
     *
     * @param anyURI
     * @param escapePercent - escapes '%' to it's hex value if true, ignores it otherwise.
     * @return
     */
    public static String escapeUnsafeCharacters(String anyURI, boolean escapePercent) {
        if (anyURI == null)
            return null;

        // must escape % first since our escapes have % in them.
        if (escapePercent)
            anyURI = anyURI.replaceAll("\\" + PERCENT, (String) fCharToEscaped.get(PERCENT)); //$NON-NLS-1$

        String key = null;

        // escape all other characters except %
        for (Iterator i = fCharToEscaped.keySet().iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
            key = (String) i.next();
            if (key.equals(PERCENT))
                continue;

            anyURI = anyURI.replaceAll("\\" + key, (String) fCharToEscaped.get(key)); //$NON-NLS-1$
        }

        return anyURI;
    }
}

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