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:

<link id="spacebar-settings-link">/spaces/spacetools.action?key=$generalUtil.urlEncode($helper.spaceKey)</link>

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!

[Eric Koepfle · Accepted solution]

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

I ened up with:

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

thanks all for the suggestions.

[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")

[Eric Koepfle]

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

[TtheB]

try

$action.helper.spaceKey

[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.

[David Pinn]

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

[Deleted user]

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.

[Eric Koepfle]

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