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

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;

public class URLDecoding { 

    String decoded = "";

    public String decodeMethod(String url) throws UnsupportedEncodingException
    {
        decoded = java.net.URLDecoder.decode(url, "UTF-8"); 
        return  decoded;
//"You should use java.net.URI to do this, as the URLDecoder class does x-www-form-urlencoded decoding which is wrong (despite the name, it's for form data)."
    }

    public String getPathMethod(String url) throws URISyntaxException 
    {
        decoded = new java.net.URI(url).getPath();  
        return  decoded; 
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws UnsupportedEncodingException, URISyntaxException 
    {
        System.out.println(" Here is your Decoded url with decode method : "+ new URLDecoding().decodeMethod("https%3A%2F%2Fmywebsite%2Fdocs%2Fenglish%2Fsite%2Fmybook.do%3Frequest_type")); 
        System.out.println("Here is your Decoded url with getPath method : "+ new URLDecoding().getPathMethod("https%3A%2F%2Fmywebsite%2Fdocs%2Fenglish%2Fsite%2Fmybook.do%3Frequest")); 

    } 

}

You can select your method wisely :)