[LANG-260] StringEscapeUtils should expose escape*() methods taking Writer argument

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.2

Environment

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• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Norval Hope
• Created: 31/May/06 12:04
• Updated: 06/Feb/07 23:47
• Resolved: 06/Jun/06 12:23

Description

StringEscapeUtils.escapeXML(String) is the only exposed variant, but the package private Entities.XML class it uses under the covers has a variant taking a Writer. The StringEscapeUtils.escapeXML(Writer, String) variant would be much more efficient when incrementally escaping values and adding them one-by-one and could seemingly be exposed with very little effort. Ditto for the unescapeXML() case, and presumably other styles of escape/unescape (like HTML) that use the Entities class under the covers.