org.owasp.encoder

Class Encode

java.lang.Object

org.owasp.encoder.Encode

public final class Encode
extends Object

Encode -- fluent interface for contextual encoding. Example usage in a JSP:

     <input value="<%=Encode.forHtml(value)%>" />
 

There are two versions of each contextual encoding method. The first takes a String argument and returns the encoded version as a String. The second version writes the encoded version directly to a Writer.

Please make sure to read and understand the context that the method encodes for. Encoding for the incorrect context will likely lead to exposing a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Author:

Jeff Ichnowski

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static String	forCDATA(String input) Encodes data for an XML CDATA section.
static void	forCDATA(Writer out, String input) See forCDATA(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forCssString(String input) Encodes for CSS strings.
static void	forCssString(Writer out, String input) See forCssString(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forCssUrl(String input) Encodes for CSS URL contexts.
static void	forCssUrl(Writer out, String input) See forCssUrl(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forHtml(String input) Encodes for (X)HTML text content and text attributes.
static void	forHtml(Writer out, String input) See forHtml(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forHtmlAttribute(String input) This method encodes for HTML text attributes.
static void	forHtmlAttribute(Writer out, String input) See forHtmlAttribute(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forHtmlContent(String input) This method encodes for HTML text content.
static void	forHtmlContent(Writer out, String input) See forHtmlContent(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forHtmlUnquotedAttribute(String input) Encodes for unquoted HTML attribute values.
static void	forHtmlUnquotedAttribute(Writer out, String input) See forHtmlUnquotedAttribute(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forJava(String input) Encodes for a Java string.
static void	forJava(Writer out, String input) See forJava(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forJavaScript(String input) Encodes for a JavaScript string.
static void	forJavaScript(Writer out, String input) See forJavaScript(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forJavaScriptAttribute(String input) This method encodes for JavaScript strings contained within HTML script attributes (such as onclick).
static void	forJavaScriptAttribute(Writer out, String input) See forJavaScriptAttribute(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forJavaScriptBlock(String input) This method encodes for JavaScript strings contained within HTML script blocks.
static void	forJavaScriptBlock(Writer out, String input) See forJavaScriptBlock(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forJavaScriptSource(String input) This method encodes for JavaScript strings contained within a JavaScript or JSON file.
static void	forJavaScriptSource(Writer out, String input) See forJavaScriptSource(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forUri(String input) Performs percent-encoding of a URL according to RFC 3986.
static void	forUri(Writer out, String input) See forUri(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forUriComponent(String input) Performs percent-encoding for a component of a URI, such as a query parameter name or value, path or query-string.
static void	forUriComponent(Writer out, String input) See forUriComponent(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forXml(String input) Encoder for XML and XHTML.
static void	forXml(Writer out, String input) See forXml(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forXmlAttribute(String input) Encoder for XML and XHTML attribute content.
static void	forXmlAttribute(Writer out, String input) See forXmlAttribute(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forXmlComment(String input) Encoder for XML comments.
static void	forXmlComment(Writer out, String input) See forXmlComment(String) for description of encoding.
static String	forXmlContent(String input) Encoder for XML and XHTML text content.
static void	forXmlContent(Writer out, String input) See forXmlContent(String) for description of encoding.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

forHtml

public static String forHtml(String input)

Encodes for (X)HTML text content and text attributes. Since this method encodes for both contexts, it may be slightly less efficient to use this method over the methods targeted towards the specific contexts (forHtmlAttribute(String) and forHtmlContent(String). In general this method should be preferred unless you are really concerned with saving a few bytes or are writing a framework that utilizes this package.

Example JSP Usage

     <div><%=Encode.forHtml(unsafeData)%></div>

     <input value="<%=Encode.forHtml(unsafeData)%>" />
 

Encoding Table

Input	Result
“&”	“&”
“<”	“&lt;”
“>”	“&gt;”
“"”	“&#34;”
“'”	“&#39;”

Additional Notes

• The encoding of the greater-than sign (>) is not strictly required, but is included for maximum compatibility.
• Numeric encoding is used for double-quote character (") as it shorter than the also valid ".
• Carriage return (U+0D), line-feed (U+0A), horizontal tab (U+09) and space (U+20) are valid in quoted attributes and in block in an unescaped form.
• Surrogate pairs are passed through only if valid.
• Characters that are not valid according to the XML specification are replaced by a space character as they could lead to parsing errors. In particular only #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF] are considered valid.

Parameters:

input - the data to encode

Returns:

the data encoded for html.

forHtml

public static void forHtml(Writer out,
           String input)
                    throws IOException

See forHtml(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forHtmlContent

public static String forHtmlContent(String input)

This method encodes for HTML text content. It does not escape quotation characters and is thus unsafe for use with HTML attributes. Use either forHtml or forHtmlAttribute for those methods.

Example JSP Usage

     <div><%=Encode.forHtmlContent(unsafeData)%></div>
 

Encoding Table

Input	Result
“&”	“&”
“<”	“&lt;”
“>”	“&gt;”

Additional Notes

• Single-quote character (') and double-quote character (") do not require encoding in HTML blocks, unlike other HTML contexts.
• The encoding of the greater-than sign (>) is not strictly required, but is included for maximum compatibility.
• Numeric encoding is used for double-quote character (") as it shorter than the also valid ".
• Carriage return (U+0D), line-feed (U+0A), horizontal tab (U+09) and space (U+20) are valid in quoted attributes and in block in an unescaped form.
• Surrogate pairs are passed through only if valid.
• Characters that are not valid according to the XML specification are replaced by a space character as they could lead to parsing errors. In particular only #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF] are considered valid.

Parameters:

input - the input to encode

Returns:

the encoded result

forHtmlContent

public static void forHtmlContent(Writer out,
                  String input)
                           throws IOException

See forHtmlContent(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forHtmlAttribute

public static String forHtmlAttribute(String input)

This method encodes for HTML text attributes.

Example JSP Usage

     <div><%=Encode.forHtml(unsafeData)%></div>
 

Encoding Table

Input	Result
“&”	“&”
“<”	“&lt;”
“"”	“&#34;”
“'”	“&#39;”

Additional Notes

• Both the single-quote character (') and the double-quote character (") are encoded so this is safe for HTML attributes with either enclosing character.
• The encoding of the greater-than sign (>) is not required for attributes.
• Numeric encoding is used for double-quote character (") as it shorter than the also valid ".
• Carriage return (U+0D), line-feed (U+0A), horizontal tab (U+09) and space (U+20) are valid in quoted attributes and in block in an unescaped form.
• Surrogate pairs are passed through only if valid.
• Characters that are not valid according to the XML specification are replaced by a space character as they could lead to parsing errors. In particular only #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF] are considered valid.

Parameters:

input - the input to encode

Returns:

the encoded result

forHtmlAttribute

public static void forHtmlAttribute(Writer out,
                    String input)
                             throws IOException

See forHtmlAttribute(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forHtmlUnquotedAttribute

public static String forHtmlUnquotedAttribute(String input)

Encodes for unquoted HTML attribute values. forHtml(String) or forHtmlAttribute(String) should usually be preferred over this method as quoted attributes are XHTML compliant.

When using this method, the caller is not required to provide quotes around the attribute (since it is encoded for such context). The caller should make sure that the attribute value does not abut unsafe characters--and thus should usually err on the side of including a space character after the value.

Use of this method is discouraged as quoted attributes are generally more compatible and safer. Also note, that no attempt has been made to optimize this encoding, though it is still probably faster than other encoding libraries.

Example JSP Usage

     <input value=<%=Encode.forHtmlUnquotedAttribute(input)%> >
 

Encoding Table

Input	Result
U+0009 (horizontal tab)	“	”
U+000A (line feed)	“
”
U+000C (form feed)	“”
U+000D (carriage return)	“
”
U+0020 (space)	“ ”
“&”	“&”
“<”	“&lt;”
“>”	“&gt;”
“"”	“&#34;”
“'”	“&#39;”
“/”	“&#47;”
“=”	“&#61;”
“`”	“&#96;”
U+0085 (next line)	“&#133;”
U+2028 (line separator)	“&#8232;”
U+2029 (paragraph separator)	“&#8233;”

Additional Notes

• The following characters are not encoded: 0-9, a-z, A-Z, “!”, “#”, “$”, “%”, “(”, “)”, “*”, “+”, “,”, “-”, “.”, “[”, “\”, “]”, “^”, “_”, “}”.
• Surrogate pairs are passed through only if valid. Invalid surrogate pairs are replaced by a hyphen (-).
• Characters in the C0 and C1 control blocks and not otherwise listed above are considered invalid and replaced by a hyphen (-) character.
• Unicode "non-characters" are replaced by hyphens (-).

Parameters:

input - the attribute value to be encoded.

Returns:

the attribute value encoded for unquoted attribute context.

forHtmlUnquotedAttribute

public static void forHtmlUnquotedAttribute(Writer out,
                            String input)
                                     throws IOException

See forHtmlUnquotedAttribute(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forCssString

public static String forCssString(String input)

Encodes for CSS strings. The context must be surrounded by quotation characters. It is safe for use in both style blocks and attributes in HTML.

Example JSP Usage

     <div style="background: url('<=Encode.forCssString(...)%>');">

     <style type="text/css">
         background: url('<%=Encode.forCssString(...)%>');
     </style>
 

Encoding Notes

• The following characters are encoded using hexidecimal encodings: U+0000 - U+001f, “"”, “'”, “\”, “<”, “&”, “(”, “)”, “/”, “>”, U+007f, line separator (U+2028), paragraph separator (U+2029).
• Any character requiring encoding is encoded as \xxx where xxx is the shortest hexidecimal representation of its Unicode code point (after decoding surrogate pairs if necessary). This encoding is never zero padded. Thus, for example, the tab character is encoded as \9, not \0009.
• The encoder looks ahead 1 character in the input and appends a space to an encoding to avoid the next character becoming part of the hexidecimal encoded sequence. Thus “'1” is encoded as “\27 1”, and not as “\271”. If a space is not necessary, it is not included, thus “'x” is encoded as “\27x”, and not as “\27 x”.
• Surrogate pairs are passed through only if valid. Invalid surrogate pairs are replaced by an underscore (_).
• Unicode "non-characters" are replaced by underscores (_).

Parameters:

input - the input to encode

Returns:

the encoded result

forCssString

public static void forCssString(Writer out,
                String input)
                         throws IOException

See forCssString(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forCssUrl

public static String forCssUrl(String input)

Encodes for CSS URL contexts. The context must be surrounded by "url(" and ")". It is safe for use in both style blocks and attributes in HTML. Note: this does not do any checking on the quality or safety of the URL itself. The caller should insure that the URL is safe for embedding (e.g. input validation) by other means.

Example JSP Usage

     <div style="background:url(<=Encode.forCssUrl(...)%>);">

     <style type="text/css">
         background: url(<%=Encode.forCssUrl(...)%>);
     </style>
 

Encoding Notes

• The following characters are encoded using hexidecimal encodings: U+0000 - U+001f, “"”, “'”, “\”, “<”, “&”, “/”, “>”, U+007f, line separator (U+2028), paragraph separator (U+2029).
• Any character requiring encoding is encoded as \xxx where xxx is the shortest hexidecimal representation of its Unicode code point (after decoding surrogate pairs if necessary). This encoding is never zero padded. Thus, for example, the tab character is encoded as \9, not \0009.
• The encoder looks ahead 1 character in the input and appends a space to an encoding to avoid the next character becoming part of the hexidecimal encoded sequence. Thus “'1” is encoded as “\27 1”, and not as “\271”. If a space is not necessary, it is not included, thus “'x” is encoded as “\27x”, and not as “\27 x”.
• Surrogate pairs are passed through only if valid. Invalid surrogate pairs are replaced by an underscore (_).
• Unicode "non-characters" are replaced by underscores (_).

Parameters:

input - the input to encode

Returns:

the encoded result

forCssUrl

public static void forCssUrl(Writer out,
             String input)
                      throws IOException

See forCssUrl(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forUri

public static String forUri(String input)

Performs percent-encoding of a URL according to RFC 3986. The provided URL is assumed to a valid URL. This method does not do any checking on the quality or safety of the URL itself. In many applications it may be better to use URI instead. Note: this is a particularly dangerous context to put untrusted content in, as for example a "javascript:" URL provided by a malicious user would be "properly" escaped, and still execute.

Encoding Table

The following characters are not encoded:

 U+20:   !   # $   & ' ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ;   =   ?
 U+40: @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [   ]   _
 U+60:   a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z       ~
 

Encoding Notes

• The single-quote character(') is not encoded.
• This encoding is not intended to be used standalone. The output should be encoded to the target context. For example: <a href="<%=Encode.forHtmlAttribute(Encode.forUri(uri))%>">...</a>. (Note, the single-quote character (') is not encoded.)
• URL encoding is an encoding for bytes, not unicode. The input string is thus first encoded as a sequence of UTF-8 byte. The bytes are then encoded as %xx where xx is the two-digit hexidecimal representation of the byte. (The implementation does this as one step for performance.)
• Surrogate pairs are first decoded to a Unicode code point before encoding as UTF-8.
• Invalid characters (e.g. partial or invalid surrogate pairs), are replaced with a hyphen (-) character.

Parameters:

input - the input to encode

Returns:

the encoded result

forUri

public static void forUri(Writer out,
          String input)
                   throws IOException

See forUri(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forUriComponent

public static String forUriComponent(String input)

Performs percent-encoding for a component of a URI, such as a query parameter name or value, path or query-string. In particular this method insures that special characters in the component do not get interpreted as part of another component.

     <a href="http://www.owasp.org/<%=Encode.forUriComponent(...)%>?query#fragment">

     <a href="/search?value=<%=Encode.forUriComponent(...)%>&order=1#top">
 

Encoding Table

The following characters are not encoded:

 U+20:                           - .   0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
 U+40: @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z         _
 U+60:   a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z       ~
 

Encoding Notes

• Unlike forUri(String) this method is safe to be used in most containing contexts, including: HTML/XML, CSS, and JavaScript contexts.
• URL encoding is an encoding for bytes, not unicode. The input string is thus first encoded as a sequence of UTF-8 byte. The bytes are then encoded as %xx where xx is the two-digit hexidecimal representation of the byte. (The implementation does this as one step for performance.)
• Surrogate pairs are first decoded to a Unicode code point before encoding as UTF-8.
• Invalid characters (e.g. partial or invalid surrogate pairs), are replaced with a hyphen (-) character.

Parameters:

input - the input to encode

Returns:

the encoded result

forUriComponent

public static void forUriComponent(Writer out,
                   String input)
                            throws IOException

See forUriComponent(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forXml

public static String forXml(String input)

Encoder for XML and XHTML. See forHtml(String) for a description of the encoding and context.

Parameters:

input - the input to encode

Returns:

the encoded result

See Also:

forHtml(String)

forXml

public static void forXml(Writer out,
          String input)
                   throws IOException

See forXml(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forXmlContent

public static String forXmlContent(String input)

Encoder for XML and XHTML text content. See forHtmlContent(String) for description of encoding and context.

Parameters:

input - the input to encode

Returns:

the encoded result

See Also:

forHtmlContent(String)

forXmlContent

public static void forXmlContent(Writer out,
                 String input)
                          throws IOException

See forXmlContent(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forXmlAttribute

public static String forXmlAttribute(String input)

Encoder for XML and XHTML attribute content. See forHtmlAttribute(String) for description of encoding and context.

Parameters:

input - the input to encode

Returns:

the encoded result

See Also:

forHtmlAttribute(String)

forXmlAttribute

public static void forXmlAttribute(Writer out,
                   String input)
                            throws IOException

See forXmlAttribute(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forXmlComment

public static String forXmlComment(String input)

Encoder for XML comments. NOT FOR USE WITH (X)HTML CONTEXTS. (X)HTML comments may be interpreted by browsers as something other than a comment, typically in vendor specific extensions (e.g. <--if[IE]-->). For (X)HTML it is recommend that unsafe content never be included in a comment.

The caller must provide the comment start and end sequences.

This method replaces all invalid XML characters with spaces, and replaces the "--" sequence (which is invalid in XML comments) with "-~" (hyphen-tilde). This encoding behavior may change in future releases. If the comments need to be decoded, the caller will need to come up with their own encode/decode system.

     out.println("<?xml version='1.0'?>");
     out.println("<data>");
     out.println("&;lt;!-- "+Encode.forXmlComment(comment)+" -->");
     out.println("</data>");
 

Parameters:

input - the input to encode

Returns:

the encoded result

forXmlComment

public static void forXmlComment(Writer out,
                 String input)
                          throws IOException

See forXmlComment(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forCDATA

public static String forCDATA(String input)

Encodes data for an XML CDATA section. On the chance that the input contains a terminating "]]>", it will be replaced by "]]>]]<![CDATA[>". As with all XML contexts, characters that are invalid according to the XML specification will be replaced by a space character. Caller must provide the CDATA section boundaries.

     <xml-data><![CDATA[<%=Encode.forCDATA(...)%>]]></xml-data>
 

Parameters:

input - the input to encode

Returns:

the encoded result

forCDATA

public static void forCDATA(Writer out,
            String input)
                     throws IOException

See forCDATA(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forJava

public static String forJava(String input)

Encodes for a Java string. This method will use "\b", "\t", "\r", "\f", "\n", "\"", "\'", "\\", octal and unicode escapes. Valid surrogate pairing is not checked. The caller must provide the enclosing quotation characters. This method is useful for when writing code generators and outputting debug messages.

     out.println("public class Hello {");
     out.println("    public static void main(String[] args) {");
     out.println("        System.out.println(\"" + Encode.forJava(message) + "\");");
     out.println("    }");
     out.println("}");
 

Parameters:

input - the input to encode

Returns:

the input encoded for java strings.

forJava

public static void forJava(Writer out,
           String input)
                    throws IOException

See forJava(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forJavaScript

public static String forJavaScript(String input)

Encodes for a JavaScript string. It is safe for use in HTML script attributes (such as onclick), script blocks, JSON files, and JavaScript source. The caller MUST provide the surrounding quotation characters for the string. Since this performs additional encoding so it can work in all of the JavaScript contexts listed, it may be slightly less efficient then using one of the methods targetted to a specific JavaScript context (forJavaScriptAttribute(String), forJavaScriptBlock(java.lang.String), forJavaScriptSource(java.lang.String)). Unless you are interested in saving a few bytes of output or are writing a framework on top of this library, it is recommend that you use this method over the others.

Example JSP Usage:

    <button onclick="alert('<%=Encode.forJavaScript(data)%>');">
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var data = "<%=Encode.forJavaScript(data)%>";
    </script>
 

Encoding Description

Input Character		Encoded Result	Notes
U+0008	BS	\b	Backspace character
U+0009	HT	\t	Horizontal tab character
U+000A	LF	\n	Line feed character
U+000C	FF	\f	Form feed character
U+000D	CR	\r	Carriage return character
U+0022	"	\x22	The encoding \" is not used here because it is not safe for use in HTML attributes. (In HTML attributes, it would also be correct to use "\"".)
U+0026	&	\x26	Ampersand character
U+0027	'	\x27	The encoding \' is not used here because it is not safe for use in HTML attributes. (In HTML attributes, it would also be correct to use "\'".)
U+002F	/	\/	This encoding is used to avoid an input sequence "</" from prematurely terminating a </script> block.
U+005C	\	\\
U+0000 to U+001F		\x##	Hexadecimal encoding is used for characters in this range that were not already mentioned in above.

Parameters:

input - the input string to encode

Returns:

the input encoded for JavaScript

See Also:

forJavaScriptAttribute(String), forJavaScriptBlock(String)

forJavaScript

public static void forJavaScript(Writer out,
                 String input)
                          throws IOException

See forJavaScript(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forJavaScriptAttribute

public static String forJavaScriptAttribute(String input)

This method encodes for JavaScript strings contained within HTML script attributes (such as onclick). It is NOT safe for use in script blocks. The caller MUST provide the surrounding quotation characters. This method performs the same encode as forJavaScript(String) with the exception that / is not escaped.

Unless you are interested in saving a few bytes of output or are writing a framework on top of this library, it is recommend that you use forJavaScript(String) over this method.

Example JSP Usage:

    <button onclick="alert('<%=Encode.forJavaScriptAttribute(data)%>');">
 

Parameters:

input - the input string to encode

Returns:

the input encoded for JavaScript

See Also:

forJavaScript(String), forJavaScriptBlock(String)

forJavaScriptAttribute

public static void forJavaScriptAttribute(Writer out,
                          String input)
                                   throws IOException

See forJavaScriptAttribute(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forJavaScriptBlock

public static String forJavaScriptBlock(String input)

This method encodes for JavaScript strings contained within HTML script blocks. It is NOT safe for use in script attributes (such as onclick). The caller must provide the surrounding quotation characters. This method performs the same encode as forJavaScript(String) with the exception that " and ' are encoded as \" and \' respectively.

Unless you are interested in saving a few bytes of output or are writing a framework on top of this library, it is recommend that you use forJavaScript(String) over this method.

Example JSP Usage:

    <script type="text/javascript">
        var data = "<%=Encode.forJavaScriptBlock(data)%>";
    </script>
 

Parameters:

input - the input string to encode

Returns:

the input encoded for JavaScript

See Also:

forJavaScript(String), forJavaScriptAttribute(String)

forJavaScriptBlock

public static void forJavaScriptBlock(Writer out,
                      String input)
                               throws IOException

See forJavaScriptBlock(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer

forJavaScriptSource

public static String forJavaScriptSource(String input)

This method encodes for JavaScript strings contained within a JavaScript or JSON file. This method is NOT safe for use in ANY context embedded in HTML. The caller must provide the surrounding quotation characters. This method performs the same encode as forJavaScript(String) with the exception that / and & are not escaped and " and ' are encoded as \" and \' respectively.

Unless you are interested in saving a few bytes of output or are writing a framework on top of this library, it is recommend that you use forJavaScript(String) over this method.

Example JSP Usage:

This example is serving up JavaScript source directly:

    <%@page contentType="text/javascript; charset=UTF-8"%>
    var data = "<%=Encode.forJavaScriptSource(data)%>";
 

This example is serving up JSON data (users of this use-case are encouraged to read up on "JSON Hijacking"):

    <%@page contentType="application/json; charset=UTF-8"%>
    <% myapp.jsonHijackingPreventionMeasure(); %>
    {"data":"<%=Encode.forJavaScriptSource(data)%>"}
 

Parameters:

input - the input string to encode

Returns:

the input encoded for JavaScript

See Also:

forJavaScript(String), forJavaScriptAttribute(String), forJavaScriptBlock(String)

forJavaScriptSource

public static void forJavaScriptSource(Writer out,
                       String input)
                                throws IOException

See forJavaScriptSource(String) for description of encoding. This version writes directly to a Writer without an intervening string.

Parameters:

out - where to write encoded output

input - the input string to encode

Throws:

IOException - if thrown by writer