Displaying html characters through java bean

Question

I have a java bean which get populated from DB. The fields of bean may contain characters like < or . Right now when i am trying to display them, the string get truncated from the point where any of these character appear.

So if i have this is a </ test message and i want to see if it displays. HTML will display only this is a string only. How can i display full string.

P.S: For some reasons, I can't change string in the database. I have to rely whatever i have in db.

Check this: http://stackoverflow.com/q/1265282/738746 – Bhesh Gurung Nov 12 '12 at 23:20 — Bhesh Gurung, Nov 12 '12 at 23:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 12 '12 at 23:24

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One option is to surround the text with the HTML tag "pre"

The other option is to escape the text to make it XML friendly. Commons-lang has a utility for this. http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringEscapeUtils.html

answered Nov 12 '12 at 23:24

JustinKSU

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ADTC · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-12T23:42:13.620

For a simple solution, see methods of the String class:

String.replace()
String.replaceAll()
String.replaceFirst()

Note: replaceAll and replaceFirst require a regex pattern to match, not a plain match string. Check Pattern class on how to build a suitable regex.

Remember that in HTML, the symbols < and > can be displayed using < and >. If you don't understand what I'm talking about, just View Source on this page and find my last sentence in the source.

Displaying html characters through java bean

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