I did a little more digging, and it looks like the problem is here:
<SET_DIRECTIVE: (" "|"\t")* ("#set" | "#{set}") (" ")* "(">
which should be
<SET_DIRECTIVE: (" "|"\t")* ("#set" | "#{set}") (" "|"\t")* "(">
It also looks like the problem remains in trunk.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Mike Kienenberger <mkien...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm finally upgrading a project which was using velocity 1.3.1 to
> 1.6.4 (I might go with something newer, but I wanted to try to keep
> things as simple as possible for a first try without adding the 1.7
> new features, and Cayenne is using 1.6.4 right now).
>
> One thing that hit me right away was that tabs are no longer allowed
> between a directive and the left paren:
>
> #set<tab>( $amountString = "Pay In Full" )
>
> now dies with the following, and the error context is misleading.
>
> ERROR [main 04-01 09:45:42] velocity:
> org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.ParseException: Encountered "=" at
> line 190, column 25.
> Was expecting one of:
> <RPAREN> ...
> "," ...
> <IDENTIFIER> ...
> "{" ...
> <WORD> ...
> <STRING_LITERAL> ...
> <INTEGER_LITERAL> ...
> "[" ...
> <FLOATING_POINT_LITERAL> ...
> "{" ...
> "true" ...
> "false" ...
>
> The same thing happens with #if<tab>. Replacing the tabs with spaces
> causes the error to go away.
>
> Is this a known issue with 1.6.4, or something that is a regression
> for all recent versions of velocity?
>
> I've been using whitespace between the directive and the left-paren to
> provide indentation to make templates more readable, so this affects a
> lot of code. Replacing it with spaces could eventually happen, but
> I don't have something automatic at hand to do it.
>
> Thanks!
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