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Nathan Bubna commented on VELTOOLS-184:
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LOL. Sorry, didn't read carefully. I get it now, a single quote in a double
quoted string is being escaped when it shouldn't be. Got it.
Yeah, a JSON-escaping method would be good. You interested in contributing a
patch?
> EscapeTool: add a json method, or a javascript method with a second parameter
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> Key: VELTOOLS-184
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELTOOLS-184
> Project: Velocity Tools
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: GenericTools
> Affects Versions: 2.x
> Environment: any
> Reporter: Maurice Perry
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: EscapeTool, escape, javascript, json
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> The string returned by EscapeTool.javascript() method is not alway compliant
> with the JSON syntax. For instance, when the input string contains an
> apostrophe ', a backslash is inserted before it because there is no way for
> the method to know if the string is enclosed with single or double quotes.
> This is not compliant with the JSON syntax, and some JSON parsers will reject
> the string.
> There may be other differences between javascript and JSON strings, but this
> is the one I encountered, and I had to use a workaround.
> This issue can be solved either with a JSON method, or with a second
> javascript method with a second parameter indicating the type of quote used.
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