Adding Firebase data, dots and forward slashes

Question

I try to use firebase db, I found very important restrictions, which are not described in firebase help or FAQ.

First problem is that symbol: dot \'.\' prohibited in

Answer 1

I wrote this for Java (since I came here expecting a java implementation):

public static String encodeForFirebaseKey(String s) {
    return s
            .replace("_", "__")
            .replace(".", "_P")
            .replace("$", "_D")
            .replace("#", "_H")
            .replace("[", "_O")
            .replace("]", "_C")
            .replace("/", "_S")
            ;
}

public static String decodeFromFirebaseKey(String s) {
    int i = 0;
    int ni;
    String res = "";
    while ((ni = s.indexOf("_", i)) != -1) {
        res += s.substring(i, ni);
        if (ni + 1 < s.length()) {
            char nc = s.charAt(ni + 1);
            if (nc == '_') {
                res += '_';
            } else if (nc == 'P') {
                res += '.';
            } else if (nc == 'D') {
                res += '$';
            } else if (nc == 'H') {
                res += '#';
            } else if (nc == 'O') {
                res += '[';
            } else if (nc == 'C') {
                res += ']';
            } else if (nc == 'S') {
                res += '/';
            } else {
                // this case is due to bad encoding
            }
            i = ni + 2;
        } else {
            // this case is due to bad encoding
            break;
        }
    }
    res += s.substring(i);
    return res;
}