public class URLEncoder
extends Object 

Since:

JDK1.0

• Method Summary

  All Methods

  Modifier and Type	Method	Description
  static String	encode (String s)	Deprecated. The resulting string may vary depending on the platform's default encoding. Instead, use the encode(String,String) method to specify the encoding.
  static String	encode (String s, String enc)	Translates a string into application/x-www-form-urlencoded format using a specific encoding scheme.

  • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

    clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

• Method Detail

  • encode

    @Deprecated
    public static String encode(String s)

    Deprecated. The resulting string may vary depending on the platform's default encoding. Instead, use the encode(String,String) method to specify the encoding.
    Translates a string into x-www-form-urlencoded format. This method uses the platform's default encoding as the encoding scheme to obtain the bytes for unsafe characters.

    Parameters:

    s - String to be translated.

    Returns:

    the translated String.

  • encode

    public static String encode(String s,
     String enc)
     throws UnsupportedEncodingException 

    Translates a string into application/x-www-form-urlencoded format using a specific encoding scheme. This method uses the supplied encoding scheme to obtain the bytes for unsafe characters.

    Note: The World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation states that UTF-8 should be used. Not doing so may introduce incompatibilities.

    Parameters:

    s - String to be translated.

    enc - The name of a supported character encoding.

    Returns:

    the translated String.

    Throws:

    UnsupportedEncodingException - If the named encoding is not supported

    Since:

    1.4

    See Also:

    URLDecoder.decode(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)