Is there a Java method that encodes a collection of parameters as a URL query component?

Question

Is there a widely-used Java library that does something like what dojo.objectToQuery() does? E.g. (assuming the use of HttpCore\'s HttpParams object, but any key-value mappi

Answer 1

Why reinvent the wheel? Apache HttpClient has URLEncodedUtils:

   List params = Arrays.asList(new BasicNameValuePair("\\%^ &=@#:", "\\%^ &=@#:"));
   String query = URLEncodedUtils.format(params, "UTF-8");