How to escape the # sign in a seam EL?

[alllle]

Say in the following statement:

log.info("Saved article ##{article.id} successfully");

It will print "Saved article ##{article.id} successfully" directly, as seam found the first # sign and thinks "##" is not an EL and skips both # signs.

What I am doing now as workaround is:

log.info("Saved article #0#{article.id} successfully", "#");

Which prints "Saved article #123 successfully" correctly.

But this won't work in annotation when I specify the conversation value:

@Begin(value="Editing article ##{article.id}")

Does seam support escaping the # sign?
I also tried using the raw unicode value like: ".. \u0023#" and that didn't work neither.

[pmuir]

\#

[norman.richards]

\# isn't valid in a java string. \\# would be, but the backslash has no special meaning to the interpolator.

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-2566

[alllle]

So it is already fixed in 2.0.2GA? That was amazingly fast!

[nickarls]

"alllle" wrote:
So it is already fixed in 2.0.2GA? That was amazingly fast!

Even better - since it is marked as "Fixed" it probably means that it is committed into the current trunk and you can get it NOW! ;-)

[alllle]

"nickarls" wrote:

"alllle" wrote:
So it is already fixed in 2.0.2GA? That was amazingly fast!

Even better - since it is marked as "Fixed" it probably means that it is committed into the current trunk and you can get it NOW! ;-)

That is good but I will have to wait till it is included in the next release download because I don't want to deal with recompiling the whole library myself since it is not a road blocker issue :)