1 /*
2  * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
3  *
4  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6  * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7  *
8  *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9  *
10  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14  * limitations under the License.
15  */
16 
17 package org.apache.commons.codec;
18 
19 /**
20  * Encodes a String into a String.
21  *
22  * @author Apache Software Foundation
23  * @version $Id: StringEncoder.java,v 1.9 2004/02/29 04:08:31 tobrien Exp $
24  *
25  * @deprecated Please use {@link java.net.URL#openConnection} instead.
26  *     Please visit <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/09/androids-http-clients.html">this webpage</a>
27  *     for further details.
28  */
29 @Deprecated
30 public interface StringEncoder extends Encoder {
31 
32     /**
33      * Encodes a String and returns a String.
34      *
35      * @param pString a String to encode
36      *
37      * @return the encoded String
38      *
39      * @throws EncoderException thrown if there is
40      *  an error conidition during the Encoding process.
41      */
encode(String pString)42     String encode(String pString) throws EncoderException;
43 }
44 
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