# UrlQuerySanitizer.ValueSanitizer

Added in[API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#ApiLevels)

# ValueSanitizer

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Kotlin\|[Java](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/UrlQuerySanitizer.ValueSanitizer "View this page in Java")  

```
interface ValueSanitizer
```

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| [android.net.UrlQuerySanitizer.ValueSanitizer](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/net/UrlQuerySanitizer.ValueSanitizer#) |

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| Known Direct Subclasses [UrlQuerySanitizer.IllegalCharacterValueSanitizer](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/net/UrlQuerySanitizer.IllegalCharacterValueSanitizer) |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------| | [UrlQuerySanitizer.IllegalCharacterValueSanitizer](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/net/UrlQuerySanitizer.IllegalCharacterValueSanitizer) | Sanitize values based on which characters they contain. | |

A functor used to sanitize a single query value.

## Summary

|                                                                                                                                                                     Public methods                                                                                                                                                                      ||
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| abstract[String](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html)! | [sanitize](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/net/UrlQuerySanitizer.ValueSanitizer#sanitize(kotlin.String))`(`value:` `[String](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html)!`)` Sanitize an unencoded value. |

## Public methods

### sanitize

Added in[API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#ApiLevels)  

```
abstract fun sanitize(value: String!): String!
```

Sanitize an unencoded value.

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| `value` | [String](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html)!: |

|                                                      Return                                                      ||
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|
| [String](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html)! | the sanitized unencoded value |