* called by the {@link #escape(String)} method when it discovers that escaping is required. It is
   * protected to allow subclasses to override the fastpath escaping function to inline their
   * escaping test. See {@link CharEscaperBuilder} for an example usage.
   *
   * @param s the literal string to be escaped
   * @param index the index to start escaping from
   * @return the escaped form of {@code string}

 * general way.
 *
 * <p>A good example of usage of this class is for HTML escaping where the replacement array
 * contains information about the named HTML entities such as {@code &amp;} and {@code &quot;} while
 * {@link #escapeUnsafe} is overridden to handle general escaping of the form {@code &#NNNNN;}.
 *
 * <p>The size of the data structure used by {@link ArrayBasedUnicodeEscaper} is proportional to the

   * called by the {@link #escape(String)} method when it discovers that escaping is required. It is
   * protected to allow subclasses to override the fastpath escaping function to inline their
   * escaping test. See {@link CharEscaperBuilder} for an example usage.
   *
   * @param s the literal string to be escaped
   * @param index the index to start escaping from
   * @return the escaped form of {@code string}

   * called by the {@link #escape(String)} method when it discovers that escaping is required. It is
   * protected to allow subclasses to override the fastpath escaping function to inline their
   * escaping test. See {@link CharEscaperBuilder} for an example usage.
   *
   * <p>This method is not reentrant and may only be invoked by the top level {@link

   * form parameter names and values</a>. Escaping is performed with the UTF-8 character encoding.
   * The caller is responsible for <a
   * href="https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastructure.html#multipart-form-data">replacing
   * any unpaired carriage return or line feed characters with a CR+LF pair</a> on any non-file
   * inputs before escaping them with this escaper.
   *

 * array contains information about special ASCII characters such as {@code \\t} and {@code \\n}
 * while {@link #escapeUnsafe} is overridden to handle general escaping of the form {@code \\uxxxx}.
 *
 * <p>The size of the data structure used by {@link ArrayBasedCharEscaper} is proportional to the
 * highest valued character that requires escaping. For example a replacement map containing the

   * form parameter names and values</a>. Escaping is performed with the UTF-8 character encoding.
   * The caller is responsible for <a
   * href="https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastructure.html#multipart-form-data">replacing
   * any unpaired carriage return or line feed characters with a CR+LF pair</a> on any non-file
   * inputs before escaping them with this escaper.
   *

 * elements' text contents. When possible, avoid manual escaping by using templating systems and
 * high-level APIs that provide autoescaping. For example, consider <a
 * href="http://www.xom.nu/">XOM</a> or <a href="http://www.jdom.org/">JDOM</a>.
 *
 * <p><b>Note:</b> Currently the escapers provided by this class do not escape any characters
 * outside the ASCII character range. Unlike HTML escaping the XML escapers will not escape

 * most elements' text contents. When possible, avoid manual escaping by using templating
 * systems and high-level APIs that provide autoescaping.
 * One Google-authored templating system available for external use is <a
 * href="https://developers.google.com/closure/templates/">Closure Templates</a>.
 *
 * <p>HTML escaping is particularly tricky: For example, <a

    // Escapers operate on characters: no characters, no escaping.
    Assert.assertEquals("", escaper.escape(""));
    // Assert that escapers throw null pointer exceptions.
    try {
      escaper.escape((String) null);
      Assert.fail("exception not thrown when escaping a null string");
    } catch (NullPointerException e) {
      // pass
    }
  }

  /**