com.ivata.mask.web.format
Class URLFormat

java.lang.Object
  com.ivata.mask.web.format.URLFormat

All Implemented Interfaces:

HTMLFormat

public class URLFormat

extends java.lang.Object

implements HTMLFormat

Format a URL by encoding the characters.

ASCII characters 'a' through 'z', 'A' through 'Z', and '0' through '9' remain the same. So do the unreserved characters - _ . ! ~ * ' ().

All other ASCII characters are converted into the form "%ab" where ab is the hex value of the character code.

Note: we used to have our own implementation, but this is now just a wrapper for URLEncoder.

Since:

ivata masks 0.4 (2002-09-24)

Version:

$Revision: 1.3 $

Author:

Colin MacLeod colin.macleod@ivata.com

Constructor Summary

URLFormat()

Method Summary

java.lang.String

format(java.lang.String uRLText) Convert the given URL by converting the disallowed characters into two-byte hex representations, preceded by '%'.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

URLFormat

public URLFormat()

Method Detail

format

public final java.lang.String format(java.lang.String uRLText)

Convert the given URL by converting the disallowed characters into two-byte hex representations, preceded by '%'.

Specified by:

format in interface HTMLFormat

Parameters:

uRLText - URL to be converted.

Returns:

a string representing the URL, containing only allowed characters.