How to do URL decoding in Java?

Question

In Java, I want to convert this:

https%3A%2F%2Fmywebsite%2Fdocs%2Fenglish%2Fsite%2Fmybook.do%3Frequest_type

To thi

Answer 1

public String decodeString(String URL)
    {

    String urlString="";
    try {
        urlString = URLDecoder.decode(URL,"UTF-8");
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block

        }

        return urlString;

    }