Parsing a URL in Java

Question

I am looking for an equivalent to PHP\'s \"parse_url\" function in Java. I am not running in Tomcat. I have query strings saved in a database that I\'m trying to b

Answer 1

Here's something quick and dirty (have not compiled it, but you should get the idea.

URL url = new URL("http://...");
String query = url.getQuery();
String paramStrings[] = query.split("\\&");
HashMultiMap params = HashMultiMap.create(); // <== google guava class
for (int i=0;iparamStrings.length;i++) {
    String parts[] = params[i].split("=");
    params.put(URLDecoder.decode(parts[0], "UTF-8"), URLDecoder.decode(parts[1], "UTF-8"));
}

Set paramVals = params.get("paramName");

If you don't want to use the guava class, you can accomplish the same thing with some additional code, and a HashMap>