URLEncode in GWT?

[devonianfarm]

I am writing a GWT app that generates URLs, often of a format like

something.html?id=arbitrary_parameter

I'd like to run "arbitrary_parameter" through something like the
URLEncode.encode() function so that I know the app produces safe
URLs. URLEncode is in java.net, so, according to the
documentation, it's not available in GWT. Is this correct? Is there
an alternative function to do this? Or do I need to code up my own
encoder?

[Ian Petersen]

I don't know if there's a more GWT-ish way to do this, but you can use
the native Javascript encodeURIComponent() function via JSNI:

public class MyUtilityClass {

public static native void encodeURIComponent(String component) /*-{
return encodeURIComponent(component);
}-*/;
}

Ian

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[Robert Hanson]

This is available in the HTTP module, you need to add this import to your module config:

<inherits name="com.google.gwt.http.HTTP"/>

Then use URL.encode();

Docs: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/documentation/com.google.gwt.http.client.URL.html


Rob

[devonianfarm]

Thanks!