libjava/java/net/URLDecoder.java

/* URLDecoder.java -- Class to decode URL's from encoded form.
   Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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package java.net;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

 /**
  * This utility class contains static methods that converts a 
  * string encoded in the x-www-form-urlencoded format to the original
  * text.  The x-www-form-urlencoded format replaces certain disallowed
  * characters with encoded equivalents.  All upper case and lower case
  * letters in the US alphabet remain as is, the space character (' ')
  * is replaced with '+' sign, and all other characters are converted to a
  * "%XX" format where XX is the hexadecimal representation of that character
  * in a given character encoding (default is "UTF-8").
  * <p>
  * This method is very useful for decoding strings sent to CGI scripts
  *
  * Written using on-line Java Platform 1.2/1.4 API Specification.
  * Status:  Believed complete and correct.
  *
  * @since 1.2
  *
  * @author Warren Levy <warrenl@cygnus.com>
  * @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com) (documentation comments)
  * @author Mark Wielaard (mark@klomp.org)
  */
public class URLDecoder
{
 /**
  * This method translates the passed in string from x-www-form-urlencoded
  * format using the default encoding "UTF-8" to decode the hex encoded
  * unsafe characters.
  *
  * @param s the String to convert
  *
  * @return the converted String
  */
  public static String decode(String s)
  {
    try
      {
	return decode(s, "UTF-8");
      }
    catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uee)
      {
	// Should never happen since UTF-8 encoding should always be supported
	return s;
      }
  }

 /**
  * This method translates the passed in string from x-www-form-urlencoded
  * format using the given character encoding to decode the hex encoded
  * unsafe characters.
  * <p>
  * This implementation will decode the string even if it contains
  * unsafe characters (characters that should have been encoded) or if the
  * two characters following a % do not represent a hex encoded byte.
  * In those cases the unsafe character or the % character will be added
  * verbatim to the decoded result.
  *
  * @param s the String to convert
  * @param encoding the character encoding to use the decode the hex encoded
  *        unsafe characters
  *
  * @return the converted String
  *
  * @since 1.4
  */
  public static String decode(String s, String encoding)
    throws UnsupportedEncodingException
  {
    StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();

    // First convert all '+' characters to spaces.
    String str = s.replace('+', ' ');
    
    // Then go through the whole string looking for byte encoded characters
    int i;
    int start = 0;
    byte[] bytes = null;
    int length = str.length();
    while ((i = str.indexOf('%', start)) >= 0)
      {
	// Add all non-encoded characters to the result buffer
	result.append(str.substring(start, i));
	start = i;

	// Get all consecutive encoded bytes
	while ((i+2 < length) && (str.charAt(i) == '%'))
	  i += 3;

	// Decode all these bytes
	if ((bytes == null) || (bytes.length < ((i-start)/3)))
	  bytes = new byte[((i-start)/3)];

	int index = 0;
	try
	  {
	    while (start < i)
	      {
		String sub = str.substring(start + 1, start + 3);
		bytes[index] = (byte)Integer.parseInt(sub, 16);
		index++;
		start += 3;
	      }
	  }
	catch (NumberFormatException nfe)
	  {
	    // One of the hex encoded strings was bad
	  }

	// Add the bytes as characters according to the given encoding
	result.append(new String(bytes, 0, index, encoding));

	// Make sure we skip to just after a % sign
	// There might not have been enough encoded characters after the %
	// or the hex chars were not actually hex chars (NumberFormatException)
	if (start < length && s.charAt(start) == '%')
	  {
	    result.append('%');
	    start++;
	  }
      }

    // Add any characters left
    if (start < str.length())
      result.append(str.substring(start));

    return result.toString();
  }

} // class URLDecoder