Github user aledsage commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-docs/pull/148#discussion_r103165332
--- Diff: guide/yaml/yaml-reference.md ---
@@ -213,6 +213,9 @@ concise DSL defined here:
`$brooklyn:root()`.
* `$brooklyn:formatString("pattern e.g. %s %s", "field 1", "field 2")`
returns a future which creates the formatted string
with the given parameters, where parameters may be strings *or* other
tasks such as `attributeWhenReady`
+* `$brooklyn:urlEncode("val")` returns a future which creates a string
with the characters escaped
+ so it is a valid part of a URL. The parameter can be a string *or*
another task. For example,
+ `$brooklyn:urlEncode($brooklyn:config(\"mykey\"))`
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Agreed - I've added:
```
It uses "www-form-urlencoded" for the encoding, which is appropriate for
query
parameters but not for some other parts of the URL (e.g. space is encoded
as '+').
```
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