Gson.toJson object contain URL

Question

I am using Gson.toJSON method. My pojo contains one of attribute as URL string. Strange thing is Gson converter changes URL characters

output is: /myApp/myAction.html?method\u003drouter\u0026cmd\u003d1

expected output is: /myApp/myAction.html?method=router&cmd=1

Answer 1

Create your Gson instance like this:

Gson gson = new GsonBuilder()
    .disableHtmlEscaping()
    .create();

Disabling HTML escaping will prevent GSON from encoding the space character as \u0026.