Java URL encoding of query string parameters

Question

Can anyone help me how I can add the URL when the user add any query like:

The URL is:

http://example.com/query?q=

And if some user entered some query:

random word £500 bank $

So the result:

http://example.com/query?q=random%20word%20%A3500%20bank%20%24

Can anyone help me with this?

Answer 1

You can use URLEncoder to do that, you can use UTF-8 if you are using an older version lower than 10, and if you are using a Java version of 11 or newer, you can use StandardCharsets.UTF_8.toString()

String q = "random word £500 bank $";

String url = "https://example.com?q=" + URLEncoder.encode(q, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

I hope this will help.

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