How do I set a URL that includes an ampersand with Thymeleaf?

Question

I have something like:

Locale defaultLocale = Locale.getDefault();
final Context ctx = new Context(defaultLocale);
String url = getHost() + "/page?someId=" + some.getId() + "&someParam=" + Boolean.TRUE;
ctx.setVariable("url", url);

final String htmlContent = templateEngine.process("theHtmlPage", ctx);

But when I look at the resulting HTML to print url, it shows &amp instead of & in the URL.

Any suggestions?

I tried using backticks to escape the ampersand in the Java code, but it just printed those too. Looked around on SO, but didn't find much that was relevant. Also tried &

Update: Ok, this won't break the link, but Spring doesn't seem to resolve the parameter "someParam" as true without it.

Rendering tag:

<span th:utext="${url}"></span>

Output:

<span>http://localhost:8080/page?someId=1&amp;someParam=true</span>

Answer 1

To avoid this kind of problems instead of '&' symbol you can use UTF code for that symbol, e.g in case of UTF-8 use '\u0026'.