[MRESOURCES-230] Can't escape the escape string

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.1
• Component/s: escape string
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Thomas Mortagne
• Created: 28/Jul/16 08:16
• Updated: 05/Dec/16 11:27
• Resolved: 04/Dec/16 13:48

Description

I have the following use case in a XML file:

    <variable name="xwikiDataDir" value="%APPDATA%\XWiki\${project.version}\data" condition="windowsSevenAndGreater"/>

Before 3.0 it used to produce

    <variable name="xwikiDataDir" value="%APPDATA%\XWiki\8.2\data" condition="windowsSevenAndGreater"/>

\ is now the default escape character, I'm fine with that but then it should be possible to escape the escape string which is buggy right now.

The following source

    <variable name="xwikiDataDir" value="%APPDATA%\XWiki\\${project.version}\data" condition="windowsSevenAndGreater"/>

gives me

    <variable name="xwikiDataDir" value="%APPDATA%\\XWiki\8.2\data" condition="windowsSevenAndGreater"/>

Notice the still doubled \. The first one should be removed from the result.

I tried escapeWindowsPaths bu it does not seems to be matching my string as a Windows path which is probably another bug.

Since I can't find any way to disable escaping (see MRESOURCES-231),
I ended up finding a character I don't have in my file and set it as escapeString.

Issue Links

• is superceded by: MRESOURCES-235 Revert enabling escaping by default introduced in 3.0.0.
• relates to: MRESOURCES-223 Define the escapeString by default with "\"