I couldn't find any explanation why StringEscapeUtils was deprecated from Apache Lang3 v3.7.
What are we supposed to use now for HTML escaping/unescaping
4 Answers
The class was moved from package
org.apache.commons.
lang3
to
org.apache.commons.text
You can replace the deprecated library easily:
In your build.gradle:
implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-text:1.9'
And in your class using StringEscapeUtils make sure you import the correct class:
import org.apache.commons.text.StringEscapeUtils;
1.9 is currently the newest version (last checked February 24th 2021) but you can check the versions at maven:
Per the deprecation listing, it was moved to a new project -- commons-text
From Commons-lang 3.6 release notes:
The Apache Commons Community has recently set up the Commons Text component as a home for algorithms working on strings. For this reason most of the string focused functionality in Commons Lang has been deprecated and moved to Commons Text. This includes:
o All classes in the org.apache.commons.lang3.text and the org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate packages o org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils o org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils o The methods org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.getJaroWinklerDistance and org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.getLevenshteinDistance
For more information see the Commons Text website:
Do below steps
Add below dependency to your pom.xml (if using maven)
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-text</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
<dependency>Import correct package as below
import org.apache.commons.text.StringEscapeUtils;- There is no such method unescapeHtml() in this class anymore, instead its two variations are available unescapeHtml3() and unescapeHtml4()
- Use unescapeHtml3() to unescape Html 3.0 characters
- Use unescapeHtml4() to unescape Html 4.0 characters
