HITQuestionHelper.java

/*
 * Copyright 2007-2008 Amazon Technologies, Inc.
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 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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package com.amazonaws.mturk.addon;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URLEncoder;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

/**
 * The HITQuestionHelper class provides helper methods for HITQuestion.
 */
public class HITQuestionHelper
{
  private final String URL_ENCODING_TYPE = "UTF-8";
  protected static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(HITQuestionHelper.class);

  public HITQuestionHelper()
  {
    // Do nothing
  }

  public String urlencode(String strToEncode)
  {
    if (strToEncode == null)
      return strToEncode;

    try
    {
      return URLEncoder.encode(strToEncode, URL_ENCODING_TYPE);
    }
    catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e)
    {
      log.error(URL_ENCODING_TYPE + " not supported as an encoding type for URLs", e);
      return strToEncode;
    }
  }
}