java.net.URLDecoder Example

Vaibhav KulkarniFebruary 5th, 2015Last Updated: February 5th, 2015

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URLDecoder is a utility class for HTML form decoding. This class contains static methods for decoding a String from the application/x-www-form-urlencoded MIME format.

Project Environment

This example was implemented using the following tools :

Eclipse 4.3 (Kepler)
JDK 1.4 or greater

1. Example of URLDecoder

We are going to decode string in this example. Create a java class named URLDecoderExample and paste the following code.

URLDecoderExample.java:

package com.example.javacodegeeks;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URLDecoder;

public class URLDecoderExample {
	public static void main(String args[])throws UnsupportedEncodingException
	{
		System.out.println(URLDecoder.decode("special+chars%3A+%26%25*+", "UTF-8"));
	}
}

In above example we are decoding string in UTF-8 format.

output: