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Handle HTML encoded data in Java

I need to dynamically generate some bottoms based on the return of ajax get call

@.getJSON("SearchByName", {"name":searchstring}, function(data){
data = data.replace(/ /g, "&nbsp");
var pop = "<p>" + data + "</p><br/><button style="border-radius:
4px;" onclick=getDatabyName("" + data +"")>Load
Locations</button>";
.....


Since the return data may have space so I have to replace all spaces with  

 

When users press the generated bottom to execute getDatabyName, it calls a Servlet to query a database. However, the query within the Java Servlet returns nothing because the space characters are not properly encoded. I tried to do another replace inside getDatabyName but still the same. I have ways to work around this but want to know the proper ways (either in Javascript or in Java) to handle this situation.

getDatabyName

getDatabyName

1 Answer
1

See this post on how to fix your Java Servlet to decode HTML input:

Java: How to unescape HTML character entities in Java?

PS. Change &nbsp to   in your code.

&nbsp

 

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