Question

xml is not encoding proper – any help

List<NameValuePair> formparams = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
            formparams.add(new BasicNameValuePair("VENDOR", "pradeep"));            
            formparams.add(new BasicNameValuePair("REQTYPE", "ExternalSystem"));
            formparams.add(new BasicNameValuePair("DATA", "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>"));
            UrlEncodedFormEntity entity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(formparams, "UTF-8");

my out is VENDOR=pradeep&REQTYPE=ExternalSystem&DATA=%3C%3Fxml+version%3D%221.0%22+encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E

but i expected this out

VENDOR=D-B165&REQTYPE=EXRCTRFREQ&DATA=<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>

any one how to do above

Thanks, Pradeep

Answer 1

It looks like the output from your UrlEncodedFormEntity() call is correct – it has URL encoded all of the NameValuePairs in formparms ala Percent-encoding.

You don’t mention the use case for your expected output, but this will do what you want by simply concatenating the NameValuePairs w/o the encoding:

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
Iterator<NameValuePair> i = formparams.iterator();
while( i.hasNext() )
{
    sb.append( i.next().toString() );
    if( i.hasNext() )
        sb.append( "&" );
}

and if you still need an HttpEntity that honors that output you could try using StringEntity with something like:

HttpEntity entity = new StringEntity( sb.toString() );