Class CharEscaper

java.lang.Object
com.google.common.escape.Escaper
com.google.common.escape.CharEscaper
Direct Known Subclasses:
ArrayBasedCharEscaper

@Beta @GwtCompatible @Deprecated(since="2022-12-01") public abstract class CharEscaper extends Escaper
Deprecated.
The Google Guava Core Libraries are deprecated and will not be part of the AEM SDK after April 2023
An object that converts literal text into a format safe for inclusion in a particular context (such as an XML document). Typically (but not always), the inverse process of "unescaping" the text is performed automatically by the relevant parser.

For example, an XML escaper would convert the literal string "Foo<Bar>" into "Foo&lt;Bar&gt;" to prevent "<Bar>" from being confused with an XML tag. When the resulting XML document is parsed, the parser API will return this text as the original literal string "Foo<Bar>".

A CharEscaper instance is required to be stateless, and safe when used concurrently by multiple threads.

Several popular escapers are defined as constants in classes like HtmlEscapers, XmlEscapers, and

invalid reference
SourceCodeEscapers
. To create your own escapers extend this class and implement the escape(char) method.
Since:
15.0
  • Method Details

    • escape

      public String escape(String string)
      Deprecated.
      Returns the escaped form of a given literal string.
      Specified by:
      escape in class Escaper
      Parameters:
      string - the literal string to be escaped
      Returns:
      the escaped form of string
      Throws:
      NullPointerException - if string is null