er.wopaypal
Class PayPalEmailURLUTF8Encoder

java.lang.Object
  er.wopaypal.PayPalEmailURLUTF8Encoder

public class PayPalEmailURLUTF8Encoder

extends Object

Provides a method to encode any string into a URL-safe form. Non-ASCII characters are first encoded as sequences of two or three bytes, using the UTF-8 algorithm, before being encoded as %HH escapes.

Constructor Summary

PayPalEmailURLUTF8Encoder()

Method Summary

static String

encode(String s) Encode a string to the "special" PayPal version of "x-www-form-urlencoded" form, enhanced with the UTF-8-in-URL proposal.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

PayPalEmailURLUTF8Encoder

public PayPalEmailURLUTF8Encoder()

Method Detail

encode

public static String encode(String s)

Encode a string to the "special" PayPal version of "x-www-form-urlencoded" form, enhanced with the UTF-8-in-URL proposal. This is what happens:

• The ASCII characters 'a' through 'z', 'A' through 'Z', and '0' through '9' remain the same.

• The unreserved characters - _ . / remain the same.

• The space character ' ' is converted into a plus sign '+'.

• All other ASCII characters are converted into the 3-character string "%xy", where xy is the two-digit hexadecimal representation of the character code.

• All non-ASCII characters are encoded in two steps: first to a sequence of 2 or 3 bytes, using the UTF-8 algorithm; secondly each of these bytes is encoded as "%xx".

Parameters:

s - The string to be encoded

Returns:

The encoded string