Question

All I want to do is to send a URL String into my RESTFUL web service with some kind of code like this

URL someURL= new URL("http://myWebService:port/service/"+CharSequence.getText());

Its all going well until I found error with space character in my URL. I found some solution about replacing the space character with %20 which is I already defined with something like this :

URL someURL= new URL("http://myWebService:port/service/"+CharSequence.getText().replace(" ", "%20"));

Everything, again, seems going well until i found that the replace(Char oldChara, Char newChara) function can only replace ONE space character, and not two.

For brief example when I send the CharSequence.getText() with values "We won" there will be no error, but when I change the values into "We won the battles" there will be an error issuing that there are some illegal character sent to my RESTFUL web service.

Any kind of answer will come up with my great thanks and big salute
~Regards~

Answer 1

Use replaceAll instead of replace.
Although, you should really be doing proper URL encoding. You can use URLEncoder.encode
for example.