Class Escaper (1.45.1)

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<Bar>" 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>".

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

Several popular escapers are defined as constants in the class CharEscapers.

Returns the escaped form of a given literal string.

Note that this method may treat input characters differently depending on the specific escaper implementation.

• UnicodeEscaper handles UTF-16 correctly, including surrogate character pairs. If the input is badly formed the escaper should throw IllegalArgumentException.