[izpack-devel] New file parsing type needed

[Julien Ponge]

Can you please send a patch instead? Thanks a lot.

On 4/12/07, Max Fedorov <mfedorov at netflexity.com> wrote:
> I've been using IzPack for some time and very glad with it, but sick of
> rebuilding it for every new version to incorporate my enhancements. I use
> IzPack to deploy a java web application to Unix and Windows environments.
> The problem that I have is with backslashes "\", which are returned by
> $INSTALL_PATH variable on Windows, for example, and are not going to work if
> substituted in files that are used by java application, for example, web.xml
> or other configuration files. What I added is another file type called
> JAVA_TYPE in VariableSubstitutor.java with a tiny if. Thank you very much
> for your product. Hope this will help other people as well!!!
>
> Here are the changes:
>
> /** A constant for file type. Java file, where \ have to be escaped. */
> protected final static int TYPE_JAVA = 5;
>
> // Initialize the file type map
>     static
>     {
>         typeNameToConstantMap = new HashMap();
>         typeNameToConstantMap.put("plain", new Integer(TYPE_PLAIN));
>         typeNameToConstantMap.put ("javaprop", new
> Integer(TYPE_JAVA_PROPERTIES));
>         typeNameToConstantMap.put("java", new Integer(TYPE_JAVA));
>         typeNameToConstantMap.put("xml", new Integer(TYPE_XML));
>         typeNameToConstantMap.put("shell", new Integer(TYPE_SHELL));
>         typeNameToConstantMap.put("at", new Integer(TYPE_AT));
>     }
>
> case TYPE_JAVA_PROPERTIES:
> case TYPE_JAVA:
>             buffer = new StringBuffer(str);
>             len = str.length();
>             for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
>             {
>                 // Check for control characters
>                 char c = buffer.charAt(i);
>                 if (type == TYPE_JAVA_PROPERTIES){
>                     if(c == '\t' || c == '\n' || c == '\r')
>                     {
>                         char tag;
>                         if (c == '\t')
>                             tag = 't';
>                         else if (c == '\n')
>                             tag = 'n';
>                         else
>                             tag = 'r';
>                         buffer.replace(i, i + 1, "\\" + tag);
>                         len++;
>                         i++;
>                     }
>
>                     // Check for special characters
>                     if (c == '\\' || c == '"' || c == '\'' || c == ' ')
>                     {
>                         buffer.insert(i, '\\');
>                         len++;
>                         i++;
>                     }
>                 }
>                 else{
>                     if (c == '\\'){
>                         buffer.replace(i, i + 1, "\\\\");
>                         len++;
>                         i++;
>                     }
>                 }
>             }
>             return buffer.toString();
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