--- On Tue, 8/5/08, David Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: David Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Parsing a URL to see if a param exists > To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 7:50 PM > > > http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/networking/urls/urlInfo.html > > > > It breaks down every component of the url (protocol, > domain name, etc). Is that what you're looking for? > > > > Not really since I just need to process the query string > portion to see > if a given param exists or not. I'm using a simple > homegrown parser now: > > public boolean isParamInUrl(String url, String > paramName) > { > int pos = url.indexOf("?"); > if ( pos > 0 ) > url = url.substring(pos); > String[] paramValues = > url.split("&"); > if ( paramValues == null ) > return false; > > for( String paramValue : paramValues ) > { > String[] paramAndValue = > paramValue.split("="); > if ( paramAndValue == null || > paramAndValue.length != 2 ) > return false; > if ( paramAndValue[0].equals(paramName) ) > return true; > } > return false; > } > > The concern is whether this is valid should the URL have > complex params > and such based on encoding schemes. I mean, it just splits > the url > query string into an array of param-values '&', > and then splits that by > '=' without concern for any encoding. > > David > > Hi,
Wouldn't be faster/less coding if you just use this? URL aURL = new URL(url); String urlParams = aURL.getQuery(); if (urlParams.contains(paramName)) { // proccess as needed if paramName exists } else { // process as otherwise } just a thought :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]