com.neoworks.util
Class Escaper

java.lang.Object
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public class Escaper

extends java.lang.Object

Escaper contains methods to escape text and sql.

Version:

0.1

Author:

Nigel Atkinson nigel@neoworks.com

Method Summary

static java.lang.String	SQLEscape(java.lang.String s) Convert a string so it can be included in an SQL statement, by replacing each apostrophe with a pair of apostrophes
static java.lang.String	stringEscape(java.lang.String in) Escape a String (replace " with \")
static java.lang.String	XMLEscape(java.lang.String in) Escape special characters in a String value.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

XMLEscape

public static java.lang.String XMLEscape(java.lang.String in)

Escape special characters in a String value.

Parameters:

in - The input string

Returns:

The XML representation of the string
This static method converts a Unicode string to a string containing only ASCII characters, in which non-ASCII characters are represented by the usual XML/HTML escape conventions (for example, "<" becomes "&lt;").
Note: if the input consists solely of ASCII or Latin-1 characters, the output will be equally valid in XML and HTML. Otherwise it will be valid only in XML.

SQLEscape

public static java.lang.String SQLEscape(java.lang.String s)

Convert a string so it can be included in an SQL statement, by replacing each apostrophe with a pair of apostrophes

Parameters:

s - The string to escape

Returns:

The escaped string

stringEscape

public static java.lang.String stringEscape(java.lang.String in)

Escape a String (replace " with \")

Parameters:

in - The String to escape

Returns:

The escaped String