Assign HTML character entities

Question

Hello,
I have a scenario where a message should be sent to an HTTP server using the HTTP receiver CC. In the message itself no special HTML characters such as <, > or / should be used but they should be replaced with special character entities such as &lt for < .
Is there an easy way to do this as it is quite a common requirement? Is there an adapter module available for this or must this be done in the mapping itself?
Thank you for your advice.
Edited by: Florian Guppenberger on Aug 11, 2009 6:54 PM
Edited by: Florian Guppenberger on Aug 11, 2009 6:55 PM

Answer 1

> public void execute(InputStream in, OutputStream out)
>           throws StreamTransformationException {
> try{   
> int c;
>     while ((c = in.read()) != -1) {
>       switch (c){      
>          case '&': out.write("&amp ;".getBytes()); break;   
>          case '&lt;': out.write("&lt ;".getBytes()); break;
>          case '>': out.write("&gt ;".getBytes()); break;
>          default: out.write(c);
>        }
>
>     }
>   } catch (IOException e) {
>     throw new StreamTransformationException(e.getMessage());
>   }
>
>
> }
The SDN forum does not allow html escape sequences, so I put a space before the ; which you have to remove in your code.
' and " need not to be escaped, so I removed that lines.
Edited by: Stefan Grube on Aug 16, 2009 11:06 PM