Thu, 20 Jan 05
Expresso and dbobjects and ampersands
If you’re ever pulling a url from a database via an Expresso dbobject (Expresso’s O-R layer) and you find yourself with mysterious & characters being inserted, you may want to visit this thread and the FilterManager javadoc. Long story short, add this line:
setStringFilter("fieldname", FilterManager.RAW_FILTER);
to any fields of the dbobject that you don’t want ‘made safe’ by the default filter (which screens out dangerous HTML characters). Tested on Expresso 5.5.
(I’m omitting the rant about changing data pulled from the database without making it loud and clear that default behavior is to filter certain characters. But it’s a Bad Idea.)
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