[FELIX-6630] Make it possible to have newline characters in Felix WebConsole OSGi configuration property descriptions

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: webconsole-4.8.12
• Fix Version/s: webconsole-4.9.0
• Component/s: Web Console
• Assignee: Carsten Ziegeler
• Reporter: Serge Huber
• Created: 21/Aug/23 07:26
• Updated: 31/Aug/23 07:23
• Resolved: 23/Aug/23 13:07

Description

Currently it is not possible to use newline characters (or any way to go to a new line including HTML br or p tags) in a OSGI configuration description. It would be nice to be able to do so to provide more detailed descriptions of some configurations.

It is clear that this must be done carefully to avoid any security issues so ideally the solution to this would not include allowing any HTML tags, but possibly just some kind of marker (maybe a String \n character ?) to allow the new line.

I am also volunteering to work on this if it seems interesting to the community.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #232