How to allow character '&' without convert to '&'

i have data from http post data like this :

"billingCode=820131114000031&custName=Josh & Mark&numAccount=25800&parameterId=2&traceId=820131114000031"

if i use jsoup :

String postDataori = Jsoup.clean("billingCode=820131114000031&custName=Josh & Mark&numAccount=25800&parameterId=2&traceId=820131114000031", Whitelist.basic());
System.out.println("PostData  : " + postDataori);

and the output like this :

PostData  : billingCode=820131114000031&custName=Josh & Mark&numAccount=25800&parameterId=2&traceId=820131114000031

my question is how to allow character ‘&’ without convert to & ?

[isapir]

@cketti My issue is not with Parsing; It’s with rendering of the HTML when calling Document’s toString() or html().

As I wrote above, I need to render links that work, so the delimiter of the Query String is a single & symbol, and not an HTML entity, e.g. https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&q=jsoup

But JSoup always produces the delimiter as HTML entities, which leads to broken links, e.g. https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&q=jsoup

There has to be a way to render the HTML with single &. This issue has affected many others judging by the mailing list and StackOverflow, and they resorted to doing something like:

String htmlString = doc.toString().replace("&", "&");

The best solution IMO is to add another EscapeMode that will be more permissive, and will not enforce entities where they are not needed nor desired.

[mjclemente]

Hahaha. True. I fully acknowledge that. Which is why I was hoping Jsoup would have an option to allow valid ampersands to remain unencoded. But if that’s not gonna happen, at least my hacky code is getting the job done 👍