}
    }

    /**
     * Escapes wildcard characters in the given query string.
     *
     * This method replaces all occurrences of '*' with '\*' and
     * all occurrences of '?' with '\?' to ensure that these characters
     * are treated as literals rather than wildcard characters in queries.
     *
     * @param query the query string to escape
     * @return the escaped query string
     */

        return StringUtil.EMPTY;
    }

    /**
     * Escapes HTML and applies highlighting to text.
     * Handles boundary position detection if enabled.
     *
     * @param text the text to process
     * @return the escaped and highlighted text
     */
    protected String escapeHighlight(final String text) {
        final String escaped = LaFunctions.h(text);
        final String value;

   * @return the escaped form of {@code string}
   * @throws NullPointerException if {@code string} is null
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code string} contains badly formed UTF-16 or cannot be
   *     escaped for any other reason
   */
  public abstract String escape(String string);

  private final Function<String, String> asFunction = this::escape;

    Conscrypt is the bundled security provider on Android so it is not necessary
    to configure it on that platform.

 *  New: `HttpUrl.addQueryParameter()` percent-escapes more characters.
    Previously several ASCII punctuation characters were not percent-escaped
    when used with this method. This does not impact already-encoded query
    parameters in APIs like `HttpUrl.parse()` and
    `HttpUrl.Builder.addEncodedQueryParameter()`.

 */
@GwtCompatible
public final class Escapers {
  private Escapers() {}

  /**
   * Returns an {@link Escaper} that does no escaping, passing all character data through unchanged.
   */
  public static Escaper nullEscaper() {
    return NULL_ESCAPER;
  }

  // An Escaper that efficiently performs no escaping.
  // Extending CharEscaper (instead of Escaper) makes Escapers.compose() easier.

    depends on JUnit, though it continues to work with all testing frameworks.
 *  Fix: `FormEncodingBuilder` is now consistent with browsers in which
    characters it escapes. Previously we weren’t percent-encoding commas,
    parens, and other characters.
 *  Fix: Relax `FormEncodingBuilder` to support building empty forms.

            }
        }
        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Escapes special characters in an LDAP search filter to prevent injection attacks.
     *
     * @param filter the LDAP search filter to escape
     * @return the escaped filter string
     */
    protected String escapeLDAPSearchFilter(String filter) {
        final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

          destIndex += charsSkipped;
        }
        if (escaped.length > 0) {
          System.arraycopy(escaped, 0, dest, destIndex, escaped.length);
          destIndex += escaped.length;
        }
        // If we dealt with an escaped character, reset the unescaped range.
        unescapedChunkStart = nextIndex;
      }
      index = nextEscapeIndex(s, nextIndex, end);
    }

          destIndex += charsSkipped;
        }
        if (escaped.length > 0) {
          System.arraycopy(escaped, 0, dest, destIndex, escaped.length);
          destIndex += escaped.length;
        }
        // If we dealt with an escaped character, reset the unescaped range.
        unescapedChunkStart = nextIndex;
      }
      index = nextEscapeIndex(s, nextIndex, end);
    }

public abstract class CharEscaper extends Escaper {
  /** Constructor for use by subclasses. */
  protected CharEscaper() {}

  /**
   * Returns the escaped form of a given literal string.
   *
   * @param string the literal string to be escaped
   * @return the escaped form of {@code string}
   * @throws NullPointerException if {@code string} is null
   */
  @Override
  public String escape(String string) {