Why was org.apache.common.lang3 StringEscapeUtils deprecated?
Per the deprecation listing, it was moved to a new project -- commons-text
The class was moved from package
org.apache.commons.
lang3
to
org.apache.commons.text
You can replace the deprecated library easily:
In your build.gradle:
implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-text:1.9'
And in your class using StringEscapeUtils
make sure you import the correct class:
import org.apache.commons.text.StringEscapeUtils;
1.9 is currently the newest version (last checked February 24th 2021) but you can check the versions at maven: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-text