I'm using Clay with HTML templates in an application on which I am working. In
several cases, I refer to managed bean properties directly in my template text
(e.g., <p>#{mybean.prop}</p>). I recently noticed MyFaces' ReducedHTMLParser
throwing exceptions about malformed HTML. Not finding any problems in my HTML
template itself, I looked at the generated page source and discovered that in
cases where a managed bean property contained special characters (in my case,
less-than and greater-than signs), Clay is apparently not escaping them before
rendering them.
Is this a bug in Clay or a "feature" (or a configuration problem on my part)?
Is there any workaround aside from putting calls to
org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml() in every managed bean
"getter" method that returns a String or wrapping all references in <f:verbatim
escape="true">?
I'm using Shale v1.0.4.
Rich Eggert
Member of Technical Staff
Proteus Technologies, LLC
http://www.proteus-technologies.com
