Convert String to URL in vm file.

Question

Hi All,

I want to convert a plain String to a URL(clickable link) in a vm file. I have tried using $link.encode(String) but it takes as a literal. That is , it just prints "$link.encode(String)", doesnt encode. I am not sure what do I have to enable and where in jira. Please suggest. We are using jira 6.0.8 currently which will be upgraded shortly to the latest version.

Thanks,

Hemanth

Ross Bender · Answer

I'm trying the following in a macro:

$esc.url($url)

However, I just see the same output: $esc.url($url)

Any assistance would be appreciated

Elisa [Atlassian] · Answer

Hi! :) Have you tried this one: ib.name Escapes the characters in a String to be suitable to use as an HTTP parameter value. String url(Object string)

Parameters

string: the string to escape values, may be null.

Returns: a new escaped String, null if null string input

Delegates the process to java.net.URLEncoder#encodeURL(String,"UTF-8"). If $url had the following value: Hello here & there then the following Velocity script: $esc.url($url) produces this output: hello+here+%26+there Source: http://velocity.apache.org/tools/devel/generic/EscapeTool.html#url() The other option would be ( https://velocity.apache.org/tools/devel/velocity-tools-generic/apidocs/org/apache/velocity/tools/ConversionUtils.html#toURL(java.lang.String) ): toURL public static URL toURL(String value)

Converts a string to a URL. It will first try to treat the string as a File name, then a classpath resource, then finally as a literal URL. If none of these work, then this will return null.

Parameters:: value - - the string to parse
Returns:: the URL form of the string or null
See Also:: File, ClassUtils.getResource(String,Object), URL