Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> On 03/25/2010 03:17 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> I have this code:
>>
>> var content = '$content';
>>
>> I need to escape the string before it is written to the response because
>> otherwise the JavaScript code can be easily messed up. Is there any
>> utility function/macro in the platform that I can use for this purpose?
>> I couldn't find anything so I wrote a small velocity macro:
>
> $escapetool.javascript($content)
Thanks,
Marius
>
>> #**
>> * Escapes the given velocity string before it is assigned to a
>> JavaScipt variable.
>> * The following characters are escaped: \, ", ' and \n.
>> *
>> * @param $string the string to be escaped for JavaScript
>> *#
>> #macro(escapeForJavaScript $string)$!{string.replace('\',
>> '\\').replace('"', '\"').replace("'", "\'").replace("\u000D\u000A",
>> "\u000A").replace("\u000A", '\n')}#end
>>
>> This code can be optimized in Java by traversing the string only once.
>> Should I add a $util.escapeForJS method or the velocity macro to the
>> platform?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Marius
>
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