org.dataone.service.util

Class EncodingUtilities

java.lang.Object

org.dataone.service.util.EncodingUtilities

public class EncodingUtilities
extends Object

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
EncodingUtilities()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static String	decodeString(String string) Decode and return the specified pct-encoded String.
static String	decodeXmlDataItems(String dataString)
static String	encodeUrlFragment(String fragmentString) Encode the URL fragment section following RFC 3986.
static String	encodeUrlPathSegment(String segmentString) Encode a URL path segment as required by the URL specifications ( RFC 3986 and RFC 1738 section 3.3).
static String	encodeUrlQuerySegment(String segmentString) Encode a URL query segment following the item-list / key-value convention: query = "?" q-item *( "&" q-item) q=item = q-segment [ "=" q-segment ]

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

EncodingUtilities

public EncodingUtilities()

Method Detail

encodeUrlPathSegment

public static String encodeUrlPathSegment(String segmentString)

Encode a URL path segment as required by the URL specifications ( RFC 3986 and RFC 1738 section 3.3). This differs from java.net.URLEncoder.encode() which encodes according to the x-www-form-urlencoded MIME format.

Parameters:

segmentString: - the http URL path segment to encode

Returns:

the URL-path-segment-safe UTF-8 encoded string

encodeUrlQuerySegment

public static String encodeUrlQuerySegment(String segmentString)

Encode a URL query segment following the item-list / key-value convention: query = "?" q-item *( "&" q-item) q=item = q-segment [ "=" q-segment ]

Parameters:

segmentString: - the http URL query segment to encode

Returns:

the URL-query-segment-safe UTF-8 encoded string

encodeUrlFragment

public static String encodeUrlFragment(String fragmentString)

Encode the URL fragment section following RFC 3986.

Parameters:

fragmentString -

Returns:

the URL-fragment-safe UTF-8 encoded string

decodeString

public static String decodeString(String string)
                           throws UnsupportedEncodingException

Decode and return the specified pct-encoded String. UTF-8 encoding is assumed. For compatibility with older encoders, '+' characters in the input String will be decoded as spaces. Has no effect on

Parameters:

string -

Returns:

the decoded string

Throws:

UnsupportedEncodingException

IllegalArgumentException - if a '%' character is not followed by a valid 2-digit hexadecimal number

decodeXmlDataItems

public static String decodeXmlDataItems(String dataString)