How should a GWT encoded query parameter be decoded server side?

Question

I'm encoding a query parameter using GWT's com.google.gwt.http.client.URL.encode() method, but have found I can't use URL.decode() on the server to decode it because the implementation isn't available (I suspect it uses the javascript client side implementation). I get...

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: com.google.gwt.http.client.URL.decodeImpl(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;

Can someone suggest what I'm supposed to use server side to decode the encoded string?

Answer 1

I solved my problem this way: on the client side, I encode the parameters using com.google.gwt.http.client.URL.encodeQueryString(), like:

URL.encodeQueryString(param)

On the server side, I get the parameters using the ServletRequest methods, like:

String myParam = req.getParameter("myparam");

PS I initially +1'd Riley Lark's answer, but then I got some problems with some characters too... Letting the ServletRequest do the job will handle all character's encoding for you. See Decoding international chars in AppEngine