syntax errors caused by use of special characters in decision table cells ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBRULES-1811 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBRULES-1811 Project: JBoss Drools Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: drools-decisiontables Affects Versions: 4.0.7 Environment: JBoss-4.24GA with Drools 4.0.7 on Solaris Sparc 10, Sun JDK 1.6.0_07 Reporter: Frank Langelage Assignee: Michael Neale A customer entered item codes with special characters into an decision table. This caused syntax errors on the generated code. The item codes contained dimension in inches and they used a double quote for the unit (e.g. '... 24"....'). As this double quotes terminate a string, the generated code out of the decision table is invalid. If a double quote sign is in the cell content this double quote must be masked by inserting a backslash character automatically. So we would get "....24\"...." as the string literal in generated code. From our opinion it's not acceptable to force the user who fills in the data cells into the spreadsheet to learn java and masquerade problematic characters by inserting the backslash in front of them.

syntax errors caused by use of special characters in decision table cells ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBRULES-1811 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBRULES-1811 Project: JBoss Drools Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: drools-decisiontables Affects Versions: 4.0.7 Environment: JBoss-4.24GA with Drools 4.0.7 on Solaris Sparc 10, Sun JDK 1.6.0_07 Reporter: Frank Langelage Assignee: Michael Neale A customer entered item codes with special characters into an decision table. This caused syntax errors on the generated code. The item codes contained dimension in inches and they used a double quote for the unit (e.g. '... 24"....'). As this double quotes terminate a string, the generated code out of the decision table is invalid. If a double quote sign is in the cell content this double quote must be masked by inserting a backslash character automatically. So we would get "....24\"...." as the string literal in generated code. From our opinion it's not acceptable to force the user who fills in the data cells into the spreadsheet to learn java and masquerade problematic characters by inserting the backslash in front of them.