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ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-2460:
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GitHub user devin-fisher opened a pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/777

    Add String Escape Utils to Nifi Expression Language

    jira:[NIFI-2460](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-2460)
    
    Added functions to escape and unescape common transport formats that are 
supported by common-lang's 
[StringEscapeUtils](https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/apidocs/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringEscapeUtils.html).
    
    Since I added ten functions, I created a new section in the Documentation. 
I also moved URL encode and decode there too.
    
    Don't add a lot of unit tests since I'm directly piping it through to 
[StringEscapeUtils](https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/apidocs/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringEscapeUtils.html)
 and they have extensive testing 
[there](https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/blob/master/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringEscapeUtilsTest.java).
  The test are most to verify that it is going to the right function.

You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:

    $ git pull https://github.com/devin-fisher/nifi master

Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:

    https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/777.patch

To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:

    This closes #777
    
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commit 2a4f1bd68a17d3fc765a9d6c8a4e48ef21c77bfe
Author: Devin Fisher <[email protected]>
Date:   2016-07-02T23:53:16Z

    EscapeJson function added to expression-language
    
    Made use of org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils to do that
    actual processing

commit 37651b83bca350dd3c50da16e6b4eee0f2768a7f
Author: Devin Fisher <[email protected]>
Date:   2016-07-03T12:45:09Z

    fix a copy past error

commit 181c5751c6e59dadb45dce0d344192eae4c594dd
Author: Devin Fisher <[email protected]>
Date:   2016-07-03T12:45:37Z

    Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master'

commit b3fbe7540ffa47905bbbfa172ca08da40387cc58
Author: devin fisher <[email protected]>
Date:   2016-07-28T03:17:39Z

    added functions for escaping text to the expression language

commit 5a6146ea8575cf732ad23a9ce9a2c19a22ed05fa
Author: devin fisher <[email protected]>
Date:   2016-07-28T03:18:08Z

    Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/nifi

commit 4e6a0d57958a3575b1bfd7647538aaf61b28c712
Author: devin fisher <[email protected]>
Date:   2016-07-28T04:18:50Z

    Added more test for escape and unescape functions

commit fd63fe95eaadb31209bf245e393e60d0030dbb88
Author: Devin Fisher <[email protected]>
Date:   2016-07-28T23:23:41Z

    Added documentation for the new expression language functions for escapes

commit 851cfa3fe2e1051632f41c47a4d06610029eecaf
Author: Devin Fisher <[email protected]>
Date:   2016-08-02T16:16:30Z

    Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/nifi

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> Add StringEscapeUtils function to Nifi Expression Language
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: NIFI-2460
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-2460
>             Project: Apache NiFi
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core Framework
>            Reporter: Devin Fisher
>
> When using Nifi Expression Language to build up a transport format (like JSON 
> or XML) there is no go way to make sure that it has been properly escaped.  
> Example Use Case:
> When using PutHTTP to a Web Service that requires JSON input.  If the 
> incoming data could contain String with quotes or other disallow character in 
> JSON there is no reliable way to Escape the inputs as you put them into a 
> larger JSON object.
> Proposed Change: 
> StringEscapeUtils is part of apache commons-lang which is already a 
> dependency for nifi base POM. The functions in StringEscapeUtils can easily 
> be mapped into functions in nifi expression language.
> Work Done:
> I have the work done on a fork and am ready to submit a PR. That PR should 
> get good review since it is my first contribution (outside of a fixed typo) 



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