Encode java, decode javascript

[Andrei Antonescu]

Hello all,

I want to send a json object from a servlet to a javascript page. The json object contains a field named "text" that must be encoded or it will not be handled properly by the javascript code (Jquery library - $.ajax method with dataType: 'json' enabled).
So I encoded the string inside the servlet with: URLEncode("string body ". "UTF-8") and try to decode it's content in Javascript using: unescape("string body").
It all went fine except for the fact that the sign + was not replaced by space after decoding.

Is there any function in Java that can encode a string so that Javascript's "unescape" function can properly decode it?
I don't wat to use replace.

Thanks in advance

[Bear Bibeault]

Why does the string need to be encoded? jQuery certainly doesn't require that.

[Andrei Antonescu]

I fixed the problem in a ugly way. I used URLEncoder.encode in Java and special function in Javascript. I had this problem many times. Not necessary with Jquery indeed.

For example:
I am trying to display a link in a Jquery Datatables plugin. The link is smth like:

<a href="...">string with special chars </a>

Or:
The server returns a JSON string that contains special chars (comma etc.). Jquery $.ajax(... dataType: 'json' doesn't work.

[Bear Bibeault]

You never did answer my question.