Thanks, Claude,
That's probably what I'll end up doing. Either one time or possibly do it
dynamically in a custom resource loader.
(The problem is these files are all spread out in different accounts with
different authors and versioning).
WILL
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Claude Brisson <cla...@renegat.net> wrote:
> You can alter your templates to match the new syntax, something like:
>
> find . -name "*.vtl" | xargs sed -ri -e
> "s/\\\$([a-z.\(\)]+)(\[[^\]+])/$\{\1\}\2/g"
>
> so that every reference which is followed by square brackets will be
> enclosed in curly brackets.
>
>
> Claude
>
>
> On 2011-06-01 09:44, Sergey Maslov wrote:
>
>> No ideas...
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Will Glass-Husain
>> <wglasshus...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just did a test upgrade of a site from Velocity 1.6.2 to Velocity 1.7.
>>> A
>>> number of my templates started to fail because they included square
>>> brackets. (Ironically, we discovered this soon after I finished
>>> describing
>>> to my coworkers the project's obsessive stance on backwards
>>> compatibility).
>>> My pages often reference mathematical values, and the bracket is a common
>>> part of the text.
>>>
>>> This used to work
>>>
>>> #for($var in $varList)
>>> $abc[sub1]
>>> #end
>>>
>>> which would print something like
>>> Sales[sub1]
>>> Revenue[sub1]
>>> Cost[sub1]
>>> etc
>>>
>>> Now it gives a parse error.
>>>
>>> I see that ${abc}[sub1] keeps the old behavior. However, searching our
>>> site
>>> there have 40+ pages with many of these now illegal references. (Many by
>>> other authors).
>>>
>>> Any suggestions as to how I can keep the backwards compatible parsing
>>> behavior?
>>>
>>> I'll dig into the Velocity code, see if I can think of anything helpful.
>>> But just wanted to check if others had ideas.
>>>
>>> WILL
>>>
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