Android™

JSON Escape and Unescape a String

Demonstrates how to JSON escape or unescape a string. Android™

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    CkStringBuilder sb = new CkStringBuilder();

    sb.Append("backslash: \\\\, A: \\u0041");
    Log.i(TAG, sb.getAsString());

    //  The output is:
    //     backslash: \\, A: \u0041

    //  The keyword "json" can be used
    //  to escape and unescape.  To escape is to encode.  To unescape is to decode.

    //  Unescape (decode) the string in sb.
    sb.Decode("json","utf-8");
    Log.i(TAG, sb.getAsString());

    //  After JSON unescaping:
    //     backslash: \, A: A

    //  Now JSON escape the string.
    sb.Encode("json","utf-8");
    Log.i(TAG, sb.getAsString());

    //  After JSON escaping:
    //     backslash: \\, A: A

    //  Note: The "A" is not escaped to "\u0041" because there is no need.
    //  The "\uXXXX" format would be produced for non-printable control chars.

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}