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How to use GeneralUtil in atlassian-plugin.xml

Eric Koepfle

Hello,

I was mimicing the Confluence Space IA plugin to create a space admin button in our template.

the line:

&lt;link id="spacebar-settings-link"&gt;/spaces/spacetools.action?key=$generalUtil.urlEncode($helper.spaceKey)&lt;/link&gt;

the final render doesn't seem to render correctly, I see the string literal instead of the actual space key.

What am I missing? I didn't see anything obvious in the atlassian-plugin.xml, and I couldn't find a help page outlining the usage.

Thanks!

Accepted answers

Eric Koepfle

So it turned out the $helper is not a accessible by default object.

I ened up with:

&lt;link&gt;/spaces/spacetools.action?key=$generalUtil.urlEncode($space.key)&lt;/link&gt;

thanks all for the suggestions.

All comments

unknown

You've put the generalUtil in velocity context?

The best way to do that is bring the $helper.spaceKey already encoded to the velocity template.

David Pinn

When you say 'I see the string literal' do you mean that you see '$helper.spaceKey' in the output?

Tim

try

$action.helper.spaceKey

Eric Koepfle

So it turned out the $helper is not a accessible by default object.

I ened up with:

&lt;link&gt;/spaces/spacetools.action?key=$generalUtil.urlEncode($space.key)&lt;/link&gt;

thanks all for the suggestions.

Eric Koepfle

with Confluence, GeneralUtil is always in the velocity context. it's one of the default objects.

Eric Koepfle

This was close, but it was the $helper object that was null. I ended up using:

<link>/spaces/spacetools.action?key=$generalUtil.urlEncode($space.key)</link>

I guess I saw the helper so much I thought it was there by default.

Eric Koepfle

@David Pinn, Yep. But I found my way around it.

Maris Seimanovs

I discovered that in JIRA, JiraWebActionSupport has method urlEncode, thus I could just do the following in my Velocity template:

$action.urlEncode("my/unsafe/url")

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