Package com.vaadin.external.apache.commons.fileupload2.util.mime

Class RFC2231Utility

java.lang.Object
com.vaadin.external.apache.commons.fileupload2.util.mime.RFC2231Utility
public final class RFC2231Utility extends Object
Utility class to decode/encode character set on HTTP Header fields based on RFC 2231. This implementation adheres to RFC 5987 in particular, which was defined for HTTP headers RFC 5987 builds on RFC 2231, but has lesser scope like mandatory charset definition and no parameter continuation

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  • Method Summary

    Modifier and Type
    Method
    Description
    static String
    decodeText(String encodedText)
    Decode a string of text obtained from a HTTP header as per RFC 2231 Eg 1. us-ascii'en-us'This%20is%20%2A%2A%2Afun%2A%2A%2A will be decoded to This is ***fun*** Eg 2. iso-8859-1'en'%A3%20rate will be decoded to £ rate.
    static boolean
    hasEncodedValue(String paramName)
    Checks if Asterisk (*) at the end of parameter name to indicate, if it has charset and language information to decode the value.
    static String
    stripDelimiter(String paramName)
    If paramName has Asterisk (*) at the end, it will be stripped off, else the passed value will be returned.

    Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

  • Method Details

    • hasEncodedValue

      public static boolean hasEncodedValue(String paramName)
      Checks if Asterisk (*) at the end of parameter name to indicate, if it has charset and language information to decode the value.
      Parameters:
      paramName - The parameter, which is being checked.
      Returns:
      true, if encoded as per RFC 2231, false otherwise

    • stripDelimiter

      public static String stripDelimiter(String paramName)
      If paramName has Asterisk (*) at the end, it will be stripped off, else the passed value will be returned.
      Parameters:
      paramName - The parameter, which is being inspected.
      Returns:
      stripped paramName of Asterisk (*), if RFC2231 encoded

    • decodeText

      public static String decodeText(String encodedText) throws UnsupportedEncodingException
      Decode a string of text obtained from a HTTP header as per RFC 2231 Eg 1. us-ascii'en-us'This%20is%20%2A%2A%2Afun%2A%2A%2A will be decoded to This is ***fun*** Eg 2. iso-8859-1'en'%A3%20rate will be decoded to £ rate. Eg 3. UTF-8''%c2%a3%20and%20%e2%82%ac%20rates will be decoded to £ and € rates.
      Parameters:
      encodedText - - Text to be decoded has a format of <charset>'<language>'<encoded_value> and ASCII only
      Returns:
      Decoded text based on charset encoding
      Throws:
      UnsupportedEncodingException - The requested character set wasn't found.