Escape string from EditText

Question

I was just wondering, if I have an EditText that I'm turning the content of into a string, say

String queryStr = new String(searchText.getText().toString());

How would I go about escaping special characters from this string so that I could put it into an HttpGet method? Thanks!

Answer 1

使用java.net.URLEncoder ：

java.net.URLEncoder.encode(queryStr, "UTF-8");

Answer 2

Try:

TextUtils.htmlEncode(queryStr);

I think that should do what you want.

Answer 3

Try smth like this:

import android.net.Uri;

...

private String getParams(String queryStr) {
    Uri.Builder builder = new Uri.Builder();
    builder.appendQueryParameter("your_parameter_key", queryStr);
    return builder.toString();
}

It will give you the properly encoded params string to append to your base url.

Answer 4

On a side note, there's no reason to use new String() here.

String queryStr = new String(searchText.getText().toString());

should just be

String queryStr = searchText.getText().toString();