Class UDecoder

java.lang.Object
org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.UDecoder
public final class UDecoder extends Object
All URL decoding happens here. This way we can reuse, review, optimize without adding complexity to the buffers. The conversion will modify the original buffer.
Author:
Costin Manolache

  • Constructor Details

    • UDecoder

      public UDecoder()

  • Method Details

    • convert

      public void convert(ByteChunk mb, boolean query) throws IOException
      URLDecode, will modify the source. Assumes source bytes are encoded using a superset of US-ASCII as per RFC 7230. "%2f" will be rejected unless the input is a query string.
      Parameters:
      mb - The URL encoded bytes
      query - true if this is a query string. For a query string '+' will be decoded to ' '
      Throws:
      IOException - Invalid %xx URL encoding

    • convert

      public void convert(ByteChunk mb, EncodedSolidusHandling encodedSolidusHandling) throws IOException
      URLDecode, will modify the source. Assumes source bytes are encoded using a superset of US-ASCII as per RFC 7230.
      Parameters:
      mb - The URL encoded bytes
      encodedSolidusHandling - How should the %2f sequence handled by the decoder? For query strings this parameter will be ignored and the %2f sequence will be decoded
      Throws:
      IOException - Invalid %xx URL encoding

    • URLDecode

      public static String URLDecode(String str, Charset charset)
      Decode and return the specified URL-encoded String. It is assumed the string is not a query string.
      Parameters:
      str - The url-encoded string
      charset - The character encoding to use; if null, UTF-8 is used.
      Returns:
      the decoded string
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - if a '%' character is not followed by a valid 2-digit hexadecimal number