From 2f873744761677cfc8e898a1355e71c9b1be17b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pyoor <pyoor@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:51:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add HTML encode/decode methods

---
 lib/utils/common.js | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 package.json        |  1 +
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/utils/common.js b/lib/utils/common.js
index a04cbe7..2e7b0cb 100644
--- a/lib/utils/common.js
+++ b/lib/utils/common.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 /* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
  * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
  * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+const htmlentities = require('htmlentities')
 const jsesc = require('jsesc')
 const utils = require('../utils')
 
@@ -72,6 +73,24 @@ class common extends utils {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Escape special characters using HTML entities
+   * @param {string} str
+   * @returns {string}
+   */
+  static htmlEncode (str) {
+    return htmlentities.encode(str)
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Remove HTML entities from string
+   * @param {string} str
+   * @returns {string}
+   */
+  static htmlDencode (str) {
+    return htmlentities.decode(str)
+  }
+
   /**
    * Remove duplicate items from a list
    * @param {Array} list
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c35849d..1258fbd 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
     "webpack-cli": "^3.1.0"
   },
   "dependencies": {
+    "htmlentities": "^1.0.0",
     "jsesc": "^2.5.1"
   }
 }