Parsing query strings on Android

Question

Java EE has ServletRequest.getParameterValues().

On non-EE platforms, URL.getQuery() simply returns a string.

What\'s the normal way to properly parse the qu

Answer 1

If you have jetty (server or client) libs on your classpath you can use the jetty util classes (see javadoc), e.g.:

import org.eclipse.jetty.util.*;
URL url = new URL("www.example.com/index.php?foo=bar&bla=blub");
MultiMap params = new MultiMap();
UrlEncoded.decodeTo(url.getQuery(), params, "UTF-8");

assert params.getString("foo").equals("bar");
assert params.getString("bla").equals("blub");