Url.java

// Copyright (C) 2012 The Android Open Source Project
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package com.google.gerrit.extensions.restapi;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URLDecoder;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;

/** URL related utility functions. */
public final class Url {
  private static final Charset UTF_8 = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
  /**
   * Encode a path segment, escaping characters not valid for a URL.
   * <p>
   * The following characters are not escaped:
   * <ul>
   * <li>{@code a..z, A..Z, 0..9}
   * <li>{@code . - * _}
   * </ul>
   * <p>
   * ' ' (space) is encoded as '+'.
   * <p>
   * All other characters (including '/') are converted to the triplet "%xy"
   * where "xy" is the hex representation of the character in UTF-8.
   *
   * @param component a string containing text to encode.
   * @return a string with all invalid URL characters escaped.
   */
  public static String encode(String component) {
    if (component != null) {
      try {
        return URLEncoder.encode(component, UTF_8.name());
      } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException("JVM must support UTF-8", e);
      }
    }
    return null;
  }

  /** Decode a URL encoded string, e.g. from {@code "%2F"} to {@code "/"}. */
  public static String decode(String str) {
    if (str != null) {
      try {
        return URLDecoder.decode(str, UTF_8.name());
      } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException("JVM must support UTF-8", e);
      }
    }
    return null;
  }

  private Url() {
  }
}