[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Closed: (JBRULES-1811) syntax errors caused by use of special characters in decision table cells

[Michael Neale (JIRA)]

     [ https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBRULES-1811?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Michael Neale closed JBRULES-1811.
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    Resolution: Done


OK works at least with non smart quotes. 

> syntax errors caused by use of special characters in decision table cells
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>                 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
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> 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.

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