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 one static method 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.  Note
  * that since unicode characters are 16 bits, and this method encodes only
  * 8 bits of information, the lower 8 bits of the character are used.
  * <p>
  * This method is very useful for decoding strings sent to CGI scripts
  *
  * Written using on-line Java Platform 1.2 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)
  * @date April 22, 1999.
  */
public class URLDecoder
{
/**
  * This method translates the passed in string from x-www-form-urlencoded
  * format and returns it.
  *
  * @param source The String to convert
  *
  * @return The converted String
  */
  public static String decode(String s)
  {
    String str = s.replace('+', ' ');
    String result = "";
    int i;
    int start = 0;
    while ((i = str.indexOf('%', start)) >= 0)
      {
	result = result + str.substring(start, i) +
		 (char) Integer.parseInt(str.substring(i + 1, i + 3), 16);
	start = i + 3;
      }

    if (start < str.length())
      result = result + str.substring(start);

    return result;
  }
} // class URLDecoder