Class PercentEscaper


  • public class PercentEscaper
    extends UnicodeEscaper
    A UnicodeEscaper that escapes some set of Java characters using the URI percent encoding scheme. The set of safe characters (those which remain unescaped) is specified on construction.

    For details on escaping URIs for use in web pages, see RFC 3986 - section 2.4 and RFC 3986 - appendix A

    When encoding a String, the following rules apply:

    • The alphanumeric characters "a" through "z", "A" through "Z" and "0" through "9" remain the same.
    • Any additionally specified safe characters remain the same.
    • If plusForSpace is true, the space character " " is converted into a plus sign "+".
    • All other characters are converted into one or more bytes using UTF-8 encoding. Each byte is then represented by the 3-character string "%XY", where "XY" is the two-digit, uppercase, hexadecimal representation of the byte value.

    RFC 3986 defines the set of unreserved characters as "-", "_", "~", and "." It goes on to state:

    URIs that differ in the replacement of an unreserved character with its corresponding percent-encoded US-ASCII octet are equivalent: they identify the same resource. However, URI comparison implementations do not always perform normalization prior to comparison (see Section 6). For consistency, percent-encoded octets in the ranges of ALPHA (%41-%5A and %61-%7A), DIGIT (%30-%39), hyphen (%2D), period (%2E), underscore (%5F), or tilde (%7E) should not be created by URI producers and, when found in a URI, should be decoded to their corresponding unreserved characters by URI normalizers.

    Note: This escaper produces uppercase hexadecimal sequences. From RFC 3986:
    "URI producers and normalizers should use uppercase hexadecimal digits for all percent-encodings."

    Since:
    1.0
    • Field Summary

      Fields 
      Modifier and Type Field Description
      private boolean plusForSpace
      If true we should convert space to the + character.
      static java.lang.String SAFE_PLUS_RESERVED_CHARS_URLENCODER
      A string of characters that do not need to be encoded when used in URI Templates reserved expansion, as specified in RFC 6570.
      static java.lang.String SAFECHARS_URLENCODER
      A string of safe characters that mimics the behavior of URLEncoder.
      private boolean[] safeOctets
      An array of flags where for any char c if safeOctets[c] is true then c should remain unmodified in the output.
      static java.lang.String SAFEPATHCHARS_URLENCODER
      A string of characters that do not need to be encoded when used in URI path segments, as specified in RFC 3986.
      static java.lang.String SAFEQUERYSTRINGCHARS_URLENCODER
      A string of characters that do not need to be encoded when used in URI query strings, as specified in RFC 3986.
      static java.lang.String SAFEUSERINFOCHARS_URLENCODER
      A string of characters that do not need to be encoded when used in URI user info part, as specified in RFC 3986.
      private static char[] UPPER_HEX_DIGITS  
      private static char[] URI_ESCAPED_SPACE  
    • Constructor Summary

      Constructors 
      Constructor Description
      PercentEscaper​(java.lang.String safeChars)
      Constructs a URI escaper with the specified safe characters.
      PercentEscaper​(java.lang.String safeChars, boolean plusForSpace)
      Deprecated.
      use PercentEscaper(String safeChars) instead which is the same as invoking this method with plusForSpace set to false.
    • Method Summary

      All Methods Static Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods 
      Modifier and Type Method Description
      private static boolean[] createSafeOctets​(java.lang.String safeChars)
      Creates a boolean[] with entries corresponding to the character values for 0-9, A-Z, a-z and those specified in safeChars set to true.
      protected char[] escape​(int cp)
      Escapes the given Unicode code point in UTF-8.
      java.lang.String escape​(java.lang.String s)
      Returns the escaped form of a given literal string.
      protected int nextEscapeIndex​(java.lang.CharSequence csq, int index, int end)
      Scans a sub-sequence of characters from a given CharSequence, returning the index of the next character that requires escaping.
      • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

        clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
    • Field Detail

      • SAFECHARS_URLENCODER

        public static final java.lang.String SAFECHARS_URLENCODER
        A string of safe characters that mimics the behavior of URLEncoder.
        See Also:
        Constant Field Values
      • SAFEPATHCHARS_URLENCODER

        public static final java.lang.String SAFEPATHCHARS_URLENCODER
        A string of characters that do not need to be encoded when used in URI path segments, as specified in RFC 3986. Note that some of these characters do need to be escaped when used in other parts of the URI.
        See Also:
        Constant Field Values
      • SAFE_PLUS_RESERVED_CHARS_URLENCODER

        public static final java.lang.String SAFE_PLUS_RESERVED_CHARS_URLENCODER
        A string of characters that do not need to be encoded when used in URI Templates reserved expansion, as specified in RFC 6570. This includes the safe characters plus all reserved characters.

        For details on escaping URI Templates using the reserved expansion, see RFC 6570 - section 3.2.3.

        See Also:
        Constant Field Values
      • SAFEUSERINFOCHARS_URLENCODER

        public static final java.lang.String SAFEUSERINFOCHARS_URLENCODER
        A string of characters that do not need to be encoded when used in URI user info part, as specified in RFC 3986. Note that some of these characters do need to be escaped when used in other parts of the URI.
        Since:
        1.15
        See Also:
        Constant Field Values
      • SAFEQUERYSTRINGCHARS_URLENCODER

        public static final java.lang.String SAFEQUERYSTRINGCHARS_URLENCODER
        A string of characters that do not need to be encoded when used in URI query strings, as specified in RFC 3986. Note that some of these characters do need to be escaped when used in other parts of the URI.
        See Also:
        Constant Field Values
      • URI_ESCAPED_SPACE

        private static final char[] URI_ESCAPED_SPACE
      • UPPER_HEX_DIGITS

        private static final char[] UPPER_HEX_DIGITS
      • plusForSpace

        private final boolean plusForSpace
        If true we should convert space to the + character.
      • safeOctets

        private final boolean[] safeOctets
        An array of flags where for any char c if safeOctets[c] is true then c should remain unmodified in the output. If c > safeOctets.length then it should be escaped.
    • Constructor Detail

      • PercentEscaper

        public PercentEscaper​(java.lang.String safeChars)
        Constructs a URI escaper with the specified safe characters. The space character is escaped to %20 in accordance with the URI specification.
        Parameters:
        safeChars - a non null string specifying additional safe characters for this escaper (the ranges 0..9, a..z and A..Z are always safe and should not be specified here)
        Throws:
        java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if any of the parameters are invalid
      • PercentEscaper

        @Deprecated
        public PercentEscaper​(java.lang.String safeChars,
                              boolean plusForSpace)
        Deprecated.
        use PercentEscaper(String safeChars) instead which is the same as invoking this method with plusForSpace set to false. Escaping spaces as plus signs does not conform to the URI specification.
        Constructs a URI escaper that converts all but the specified safe characters into hexadecimal percent escapes. Optionally space characters can be converted into a plus sign + instead of %20. and optional handling of the space
        Parameters:
        safeChars - a non null string specifying additional safe characters for this escaper. The ranges 0..9, a..z and A..Z are always safe and should not be specified here.
        plusForSpace - true if ASCII space should be escaped to + rather than %20
        Throws:
        java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if safeChars includes characters that are always safe or characters that must always be escaped
    • Method Detail

      • createSafeOctets

        private static boolean[] createSafeOctets​(java.lang.String safeChars)
        Creates a boolean[] with entries corresponding to the character values for 0-9, A-Z, a-z and those specified in safeChars set to true. The array is as small as is required to hold the given character information.
      • nextEscapeIndex

        protected int nextEscapeIndex​(java.lang.CharSequence csq,
                                      int index,
                                      int end)
        Description copied from class: UnicodeEscaper
        Scans a sub-sequence of characters from a given CharSequence, returning the index of the next character that requires escaping.

        Note: When implementing an escaper, it is a good idea to override this method for efficiency. The base class implementation determines successive Unicode code points and invokes UnicodeEscaper.escape(int) for each of them. If the semantics of your escaper are such that code points in the supplementary range are either all escaped or all unescaped, this method can be implemented more efficiently using CharSequence.charAt(int).

        Note however that if your escaper does not escape characters in the supplementary range, you should either continue to validate the correctness of any surrogate characters encountered or provide a clear warning to users that your escaper does not validate its input.

        See PercentEscaper for an example.

        Specified by:
        nextEscapeIndex in class UnicodeEscaper
        Parameters:
        csq - a sequence of characters
        index - the index of the first character to be scanned
        end - the index immediately after the last character to be scanned
      • escape

        public java.lang.String escape​(java.lang.String s)
        Description copied from class: UnicodeEscaper
        Returns the escaped form of a given literal string.

        If you are escaping input in arbitrary successive chunks, then it is not generally safe to use this method. If an input string ends with an unmatched high surrogate character, then this method will throw IllegalArgumentException. You should ensure your input is valid UTF-16 before calling this method.

        Specified by:
        escape in class UnicodeEscaper
        Parameters:
        s - the literal string to be escaped
        Returns:
        the escaped form of string
      • escape

        protected char[] escape​(int cp)
        Escapes the given Unicode code point in UTF-8.
        Specified by:
        escape in class UnicodeEscaper
        Parameters:
        cp - the Unicode code point to escape if necessary
        Returns:
        the replacement characters, or null if no escaping was needed