HTML in a JSON String in Java

Question

I want to save a Java class named MyClass into a text file and I want to use JSON to encode the class for file writing purposes instead of implementing the Serializable interface. Moreover, to save the class I want to use the Google's Gson library and in particular the JsonWriter class. The MyClass class is, for instance, defined as follows:

public class MyClass{
 String html;    
 public MyClass(){}
}

As shown in the example above, MyClass has a String field named html, that obviously must contain HTML code.

Can I save the class into a text file by using JSON via the JsonWriter or I should encode or do something similar with the html field (e.g. a call to an URLEncode-like function) before to give it to JsonWriter?

I don't wan't to serialize the class because after I save it I need to use it in a non-Java application. — mat_boy
– mat_boy, Commented Apr 13, 2013 at 17:17
@LuiggiMendoza I need to import the class data into another program then. Is there any better way to save the file without using Java serialization? — mat_boy
– mat_boy, Commented Apr 13, 2013 at 17:19
What have you tried to accomplish it? Asking can I do this without even trying myself? is not an option here. — Luiggi Mendoza
– Luiggi Mendoza, Commented Apr 13, 2013 at 17:22

Deepak Bala · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-13 17:58:26Z

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Since escaping new lines / quotes etc can make this a little tricky, why not just use XStream to convert the object to XML and wrap the HTML in a CDATA section ? Json has no equivalent for a CDATA section.

answered Apr 13, 2013 at 17:58

Deepak Bala

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