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package brooklyn.util.net;

/**
 * Encodes URLs, escaping as appropriate.
 * 
 * Copied from fmucar's answer in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/724043/http-url-address-encoding-in-java
 * 
 * TODO Want to use a library utility, but couldn't find this in guava and don't want to introduce
 * dependency on commons-httpclient-3.1 to use URIUtil.
 * 
 * @author aled
 */
public class URLParamEncoder {

    public static String encode(String input) {
        StringBuilder resultStr = new StringBuilder();
        for (char ch : input.toCharArray()) {
            if (isUnsafe(ch)) {
                resultStr.append('%');
                resultStr.append(toHex(ch / 16));
                resultStr.append(toHex(ch % 16));
            } else {
                resultStr.append(ch);
            }
        }
        return resultStr.toString();
    }

    private static char toHex(int ch) {
        return (char) (ch < 10 ? '0' + ch : 'A' + ch - 10);
    }

    private static boolean isUnsafe(char ch) {
        if (ch > 128 || ch < 0)
            return true;
        return " %$&+,/:;=?@<>#%".indexOf(ch) >= 0;
    }

}