DO NOT REPLY [Bug 12452] New: - Axis fails to http-encode & (ampersands)

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Axis fails to http-encode & (ampersands)

           Summary: Axis fails to http-encode & (ampersands)
           Product: Axis
           Version: current (nightly)
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Other
         Component: Serialization/Deserialization
        AssignedTo: axis-dev@xml.apache.org
        ReportedBy: hhuang@kodak.com


If I have the following Java code, where http is a String:

UrlType url = new urlType();
url.name = "http://mysite.com?a=1&b=2";

Axis should serialize as:

<url>
  <name>http://mysite.com?a=1&amp;b=2</name>
</url>

Where an ampersand (&) is serialized as:  &amp;

Axis currently does not do this. The &amp; must be explicitly written in code, 
like:

url.name = "http://mysite.com/a=1&amp;b=2";

Apache SOAP 2.2 automatically HTML-encodes strings. Apache also automatically 
HTML-decodes &amp;'s to &'s.

I did not test whether Axis HTML-decodes. Axis should HTML-encode and decode 
automatically. Otherwise, every string must be encoded and decoded in the Java 
code.

-Han Huang
hhuang@kodak.com