How to implement javascript's 'escape' function in grails

Is there an equivalent of JS 'escape' function in Groovy/Java?

escape('hello world') => hello%20world

I tried this class: http://commons.apache.org/lang/api/org/apache/commons/lang/StringEscapeUtils.html, but it did开发者_高级运维n't work.

Or do i have to implement it?

Thanks.

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Try the UrlEncoder class. I.E - URLEncoder.encode 'hello world'