Confluence: How to escape double quotes in user macros?

Daniela Scheiwe

Hi,

I'm writing a lot of user macros and stumble upon this one problem every now and then:

I have no idea how to escape double quotes properly. In this specific case I'm writing a macro that holds Bob Swifts run&cli plugins, where quotes are needed. Here's a code example:

#set($globalHelper = $action.getHelper())

#set ($update = $globalHelper.renderConfluenceMacro("{run:replace=status:green:Lorem ipsum?:radio::green::yellow::red|titleRun=lorem!}
{cli:profile=confluence|hideOutput=false}
--action storePage --space xxx --title "yyy" --content "zzz"
{cli}
Status aktualisiert.
{run}
"))

The part within the {cli-stuff makes the problems.

I tried single quotes, escaping with backslash...even HTML entities, nothing is working properly. With quotes like above I get an error message when using the macro (of course), when escaping the values are set exactly with the chars I used to escape.

I'm really hoping there's a solution for this

Kirstin Seidel-Gebert

Hello Superuschi,

I stumbled into the same problem today and found that: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/velocity-user/200311.mbox/%3C3FC29041.3000000@gmx.de%3E

Thus, I solved my problem by introducing a constant containing the quote character

#set( $q = '"' )

and using it like that:

#set( $style = "style=${q}$paramStyle${q}" )

Hope that helps.