So you are looking for a different feature - escape sequence suppression. I think that can be simply addressed independently.
📱 > On Oct 26, 2023, at 5:25 PM, Rob Spoor <open...@icemanx.nl> wrote: > > Because if you URL encode the entire interpolated string the : and / inside > the URL will also be encoded (to %3A and %2F respectively). > > Likewise, the CSV escaping will escape all of the double quotes incorrectly. > > >> On 26/10/2023 22:05, Jim Laskey wrote: >> I think I’m missing something. Why wouldn’t you just; >> import java.lang.StringTemplate.Processor; >> Processor<URL, RuntimeException> urlEncode = template -> >> URLEncoder.encode(template.interpolate(), UTF_8)); >> Processor<String, RuntimeException> CSV = template -> >> StringEscapeUtils.escapeCsv<https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/apidocs/src-html/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringEscapeUtils.html#line.768>(template.interpolate()); >> On Oct 26, 2023, at 4:47 PM, Rob Spoor <open...@icemanx.nl> wrote: >> I've been reading up on string templates, and I think it's a very cool >> feature. However, writing a custom processor can be a lot of copy-paste work >> if you want STR but with some extra translation applied. For instance, if >> I'd want to have a URL encoding processor I would have to write everything >> from scratch. >> I think it would be useful to overload interpolate (both static and >> non-static) with a custom Function<Object, String> as additional arguments. >> This would work like STR if that provided String::valueOf as function. >> With this method, creating a URL encoding processor would be as simple as >> this: >> var urlEncode = template -> template.interpolate(o -> >> URLEncoder.encode(String.valueOf(o), UTF_8)); >> var url = urlEncode."https://host/path/\{id}?param=\{value\}";; >> Likewise, a processor backed by Apache Commons Text's StringEscapeUtils >> would now be just as simple: >> var CSV = template -> template.interpolate(o -> >> StringEscapeUtils.ESCAPE_CSV.translate(String.valueOf(o)); >> var csv = CSV.""" >> Header1, Header2, Header3 >> "\{value1}", "\{value2}", "\{value3}" >> """; >> If the JVM allows it, the existing interpolate method can even delegate to >> the new overload providing String::valueOf. >
