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public static String encode(String s)
//package com.java2s; /*/* w w w . j a v a 2 s . co m*/ * The MIT License * * Copyright (c) 2004-2009, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Kohsuke Kawaguchi * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in * all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN * THE SOFTWARE. */ import java.io.*; public class Main { /** * Escapes non-ASCII characters in URL. * * <p> * Note that this methods only escapes non-ASCII but leaves other URL-unsafe characters, * such as '#'. * {@link #rawEncode(String)} should generally be used instead, though be careful to pass only * a single path component to that method (it will encode /, but this method does not). */ public static String encode(String s) { try { boolean escaped = false; StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder(s.length()); ByteArrayOutputStream buf = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); OutputStreamWriter w = new OutputStreamWriter(buf, "UTF-8"); for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) { int c = s.charAt(i); if (c < 128 && c != ' ') { out.append((char) c); } else { // 1 char -> UTF8 w.write(c); w.flush(); for (byte b : buf.toByteArray()) { out.append('%'); out.append(toDigit((b >> 4) & 0xF)); out.append(toDigit(b & 0xF)); } buf.reset(); escaped = true; } } return escaped ? out.toString() : s; } catch (IOException e) { throw new Error(e); // impossible } } private static char toDigit(int n) { return (char) (n < 10 ? '0' + n : 'A' + n - 10); } }