Decodes a URL query string. You can also use this tag to encode a URL query string using a JavaBean if you supply a value for the id attribute. The id attribute value is the name of the variable that is passed to the JavaBean that converts the string. To decode a URL query string without using a JavaBean, supply the string in the value attribute and supply a character set in the charset attribute. The decoded query string is displayed on the page. If you are using a JavaBean, you are responsible for ensuring that the string is decoded with the same character set that it is encoded with.

Contexts

Any context

<domutil:urlconverter
id="variable name"
value="URL string to decode"
charset="character set to use for decoding"
onfailure="inline|exception"
time="true|false">

charset

Character set to use to decode the URL string. Default is UTF-8. If you specify a value in the id attribute, this attribute is ignored. Optional.

Name of the variable representing the string to be passed to the JavaBean for conversion. Optional.

The following are a list of the converter bean methods available to the developer:

Converter bean method syntax	Definition
String encode(String s)	Encodes the string using UTF-8. Returns null if an encoding error occurs.
String encode(String s, String charset)	Encodes the string using the character set specified in charset. Returns null if an encoding error occurs.
String decode(String param)	Decodes the query string value (param) using the UTF-8 character set. Returns null if an encoding error occurs.
String decode(String param, String charset)	Decodes the query string value (param) using the character set specified in charset. Returns null if an encoding error occurs.

The string you want to decode. Optional; required if you supply a character set in the charset attribute.

Example
See Also

The Domutil tag library