Hi, The ability to set an event handler in the velocity.properties is new in v 1.5. Previously you had to use an API call to attach the event handler to the context before merging the template. More info inthe developer guide for v 1.4.
WILL On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 5:17 AM, vinodtr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > Thanks for your reply. It was of gr8 help. I would also like to know if > there is any remote chance of extending the EscapeHtmlReference + > ReferenceInsertionEventHandler mechanism present in Java 1.5 ?? > > Velocity 1.4 contains the ReferenceInsertionEventHandler class; but no > EscapeHtmlReference. > While loading the velocity engine, velocity.properties is consulted and all > referenceInsertionEventHandlers are loaded. If i can create a class > MyEscapeHtmlReferenceand specify it in velocity.properties like > > eventhandler.referenceinsertion.class = > org.apache.velocity.app.event.implement.MyEscapeHtmlReference > > wil this work ? Its not working for me. What could be the problem ? Correct > me if i am wrong ! > > Thanks in advance > vinodtr > > > Christopher Schultz-2 wrote: > > > > Vinodtr, > > > > vinodtr wrote: > >> I am now using Apache Velocity 1.4 in my project. I would like to > >> incorporate the escaping HTML feature in my project without bringing in > >> Velocity 1.5. I could find that there is a tool called EscapeTool to > >> achieve > >> it. But to do that, i need to change all my velocity templates to > enclose > >> all fields inside $esc.html($form.bean.XXXX). > > > > This is the best way to achieve HTML escaping. If you'd like, you can > > write a short macro like this: > > > > #macro(htmlEscape $text)#if($text)$esc.html($text)#end#end > > > > This will allow you to change the implementation more easily in the > > future if you wish. > > > >> I would like to if there is any way to achieve HTML escaping as a whole > >> with > >> velocity 1.4 itself. > > > > The only way to do this would be to override the implementation of > > Velocity's "toString" behavior when writing variable values to an output > > stream. > > > > You wouldn't want to do this globally, though, because some values > > should not be HTML escaped. > > > > I think your best bet is to escape them individually as you have > > demonstrated above. Yes, it's a lot of work, but that tends to be the > > case when you want to go back and add something like this. That's the > > penalty for not planning ahead. > > > > -chris > > > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Escaping-HTML-in-Velocity-1.4-tp18785489p18798132.html > Sent from the Velocity - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Forio Business Simulations Will Glass-Husain [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.forio.com
