[jira] Commented: (ARCHETYPE-39) Add tool for working with escaping in Velocity templates

["Wendy Smoak (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Wendy Smoak commented on ARCHETYPE-39:
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Mikko's suggestion works for me.   Can we get it in as a workaround until someone has time to pursue the EscapeTool from Velocity?

We really need some way of escaping expressions so they're not filtered.

Right now I can't make an archetype for the Struts 2 Blank webapp, because of this line in a .properties file:
requiredstring = ${getText(fieldName)} is required.

Velocity complains.
Embedded error: Error merging velocity templates
Encountered "(fieldName)} is required.\r\npassword = Password\r\nusername = User
 Name\r\nMissing.message =  This feature is under construction. Please try again
 in the next iteration.\r\n" at line 2, column 27.
Was expecting one of:
    "}" ...
    <DOT> ...


> Add tool for working with escaping in Velocity templates
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ARCHETYPE-39
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ARCHETYPE-39
>             Project: Maven Archetype
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Plugin
>    Affects Versions: 1.0-alpha-4
>            Reporter: Willie Vu
>         Attachments: ARCHETYPE-39.patch
>
>
> e.g. I need to put ${archifactId} (without parameter replacement) into an assembly descriptor.  I need to escape the dollar sign.
> This is the Escape Tool of Velocity - http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/javadoc/org/apache/velocity/tools/generic/EscapeTool.html.  The embedded Velocity engine will be configured to use it, or archetype plugin allows further Velocity configuration.

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