Escaping colons

[WarnerJan Veldhuis]

Hey,

This is not about someones intestines making a run for it, but about how to handle : in a String...

Here's the yaml that I have:

- JPanel(name=ItemPanel3):
    - JLabel(name=Title3, text="Story: How to work with objects")

Even though the colon is escaped by placing it between quotes, the yaml parse still pukes over it:

org.javabuilders.BuildException: Unable to find setter method: javax.swing.JPanel.setJLabel(name=Title0, text="Story
    at org.javabuilders.handler.DefaultPropertyHandler.handle(DefaultPropertyHandler.java:86)
    at org.javabuilders.Builder.handleProperty(Builder.java:867)
    at org.javabuilders.Builder.processDocumentNode(Builder.java:560)
    at org.javabuilders.Builder.processDocumentNode(Builder.java:543)
    at org.javabuilders.Builder.handleType(Builder.java:708)
    at org.javabuilders.Builder.processDocumentNode(Builder.java:510)
    at org.javabuilders.Builder.processDocumentNode(Builder.java:543)
    at org.javabuilders.Builder.handleType(Builder.java:708)
    at org.javabuilders.Builder.processDocumentNode(Builder.java:510)
    at org.javabuilders.Builder.executeBuild(Builder.java:449)
    at org.javabuilders.Builder.buildFromString(Builder.java:324)
    at org.javabuilders.Builder.buildFromString(Builder.java:278)
    at org.javabuilders.swing.SwingJavaBuilder.build(SwingJavaBuilder.java:103)

How do I work around this?

Cheers,

WarnerJan

[Jacek Furmankiewicz]

Unfortunately, there is no simple workaround besides putting the
string into a resource file
and referring to the resource name instead :-(

This is the only shortcoming of our compact YAML syntax.

You can raise it with SnakeYAML as a defect.

But log it as a defect on our end too...maybe we can simply define a
placeholder character like ":"
and I could manually convert it to the proper value.

Actually, try ":" instead of ":" and let me know what
happens...maybe Swing will actually handle it.
if not, submit it as an enhancement on our end

Cheers,
Jacek

[WarnerJan Veldhuis]

Using Unicode characters works like a charm:

- JPanel(name=ItemPanel3):
    - JLabel(name=Title3, text="Story\u003A How to work with objects")

It might be worth mentioning this in the docs chapter 2.3.

I'll still report it at SnakeYAML though...


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[Jacek Furmankiewicz]

The previous YAML parser did the same thing, so it's probably a case of us violating the YAML standard with this :-)