Does java have a built in way to convert angle-brackets to entity codes?

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I have some java code which writes text including angle-brackets to a DB; this text is displayed on a web-page.

Rather than change my java code to be full of entity codes, I wondered if I can keep the constants like "<test>" and use a standard library function to generate the entity-based string "<test>"?

Answer 1

If you just want to do angle brackets, I'd have a look at Java's String Replace functionality.

But you probably should take a look at StringEscapeUtils if you want a more complete solution

in particular, public static String escapeHtml(String str) looks like a promising function

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Judging by that signature, I would guess that

string myEscapedHTML = escapeHtml(myUnescapedHTML);

is the way to use it.