[WICKET-1054] No way to escape html markup but keep non-7 bit characters in generated output

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0-beta3
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0-rc1
• Component/s: wicket
• Assignee: Juegen Donnerstag
• Reporter: Marat Radchenko
• Created: 09/Oct/07 12:52
• Updated: 14/Oct/07 13:54
• Resolved: 14/Oct/07 08:27

Description

from Component#String getModelObjectAsString(Object):
==
if (getFlag(FLAG_ESCAPE_MODEL_STRINGS))
{
// Escape it
return Strings.escapeMarkup(modelString, false, true).toString();
}
return modelString;
==

As you can see, we have two options.
1) Output will be html-escaped and all non-7 bit characters will be replaced with &#....; codes.
2) Nothing will be escaped.

These might be enough for ASCII-speaking people but not very friendly for others.

We need third option:
escape html-sensitive characters (&, <, >, etc) and do not modify all other characters because it is very difficult to view html-escaped page source and search engines are not happy with it.

This can be done by replacing if {} body with following code:
return Strings.escapeMarkup(modelString, false, false).toString();

Maybe some additional flag could be added in order to support such behavior?

Hope this will be fixed.