1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/qpid/java/systests/src/main/java/org/apache/qpid/systest/rest/RestTestHelper.java b/qpid/java/systests/src/main/java/org/apache/qpid/systest/rest/RestTestHelper.java
index 469e6ce52b..31d148a529 100644
--- a/qpid/java/systests/src/main/java/org/apache/qpid/systest/rest/RestTestHelper.java
+++ b/qpid/java/systests/src/main/java/org/apache/qpid/systest/rest/RestTestHelper.java
@@ -31,10 +31,12 @@ import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLDecoder;
+import java.net.URLEncoder;
 import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
 import java.security.KeyStore;
 import java.util.Collections;
@@ -575,4 +577,20 @@ public class RestTestHelper
         }
     }
 
+    public String encode(String value, String encoding) throws UnsupportedEncodingException
+    {
+        return URLEncoder.encode(value, encoding).replace("+", "%20");
+    }
+
+    public String encodeAsUTF(String value)
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            return encode(value, "UTF8");
+        }
+        catch(UnsupportedEncodingException e)
+        {
+            throw new RuntimeException("Unsupported encoding UTF8", e);
+        }
+    }
 }