Parsing "html_attributions" from Google Places response in JAVA

Question

Per policy it is mandatory show "html_attributions" in the app. This response is received as - "html_attributions" : [ "Listings by \u003ca href=\"http:// Some website.com/\"\u003esSome website\u003c/a\u003e" ]

When I parse it as jObject.getJSONArray("html_attributions") I get - ["Listings by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.some website.com\/\">some website<\/a>"]

This cannot be displayed as is since it is not html correct. Is there any method to parse this attribution correctly so that html valid string is extracted?

Answer 1

Go through this Google Places Api Sample which describes a way of doing so.

It has a method formatPlaceDetails that Format details of the place for display. It does not support HTML tags directly, they need to be encoded first.

private static Spanned formatPlaceDetails(Resources res, CharSequence name, String id,
            CharSequence address, CharSequence phoneNumber, Uri websiteUri) {
        Log.e(TAG, res.getString(R.string.place_details, name, id, address, phoneNumber,
                websiteUri));
        return Html.fromHtml(res.getString(R.string.place_details, name, id, address, phoneNumber,
                websiteUri));

    }

string.xml

<string name="place_details">&lt;b&gt;%1$s&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;Place Id: %2$s&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Address: %3$s&lt;br/&gt;Phone: %4$s&lt;br/&gt;Website: %5$s</string>