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Java - Convert String to valid URI object

Asked 2009-02-21T15:07:19.417
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I am trying to get a java.net.URI object from a String. The string has some characters which will need to be replaced by their percentage escape sequences. But when I use URLEncoder to encode the String with UTF-8 encoding, even the / are replaced with their escape sequences.

How can I get a valid encoded URL from a String object?

http://www.google.com?q=a b gives http%3A%2F%2www.google.com... whereas I want the output to be http://www.google.com?q=a%20b

Can someone please tell me how to achieve this.

I am trying to do this in an Android app. So I have access to a limited number of libraries.

java android encoding utf-8
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Or perhaps you could use this class:

http://developer.android.com/reference/java/net/URLEncoder.html

Which is present in Android since API level 1.

Annoyingly however, it treats spaces specially (replacing them with + instead of %20). To get round this we simply use this fragment:

URLEncoder.encode(value, "UTF-8").replace("+", "%20");

answered 2011-01-12T20:15:24.283

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