How to do urlencode, rawurlencode, urldecode, rawurldecode in Java?

Question

How do you do RAW/URL encode/decode in JAVA?

Got something which asked URLencoded or RAWURLencoded need to be sent. After looking here and there, did not find any url/rawurl encoder/decoder available. How do you make it?

Example:

String webBrowser = "how=WebRSS&what=Tandory chicken is nice with rice, lets cook for my honey";
String encoded = null;

/**
 * Output: how%3DWebRSS%26what%3DTandory+chicken+is+nice+with+rice%2C+lets+cook+for+my+honey
 */
urlencode(webBrowser); 

/**
 * Output: how%3DWebRSS%26what%3DTandory%20chicken%20is%20nice%20with%20rice%2C%20lets%20cook%20for%20my%20honey
 */
rawurlencode(webBrowser);

postIt(encoded); //!!

Answer 1

For urlencode/urldecode (the application/x-www-form-urlencoded variants), you can use URLEncoder and URLDecoder.

For the "raw" versions, you can use the URI class, which performs this task automatically.