how to include a URL in the messages_en.properties file

[daxxy]

I have a message defined in messages_en.properties file like this (note URL encoding):


network.diagram.url=http://ssahost.ba.ssa.gov/DNENIB/SSAMap%20Core%20rev%208.htm

It is referred to in my view like this:


<h:outputLink value="#{messages['network.diagram.url']}">


However, the URL encoding is decoded when the page is rendered, making the link unusable. Like this:


http://ssahost.ba.ssa.gov/DNENIB/SSAMap Core rev 8.htm

How do I maintain the URL encoding?

Thanks
TDR

[gonorrhea]

I'm not sure about this one, but perhaps it has to do with UTF-8 vs. ASCII:

First you need to ensure that your resource bundle is encoded using the desired
character encoding. By default ASCII is used.

see section 16.1.2 in Seam ref docs

not sure exactly how to solve your problem, however...

[daxxy]

I'm game to look at the docs, but I can't find them other than on docs.jboss.org and that site has been down every time I've looked.

Help! Where is this elusive documentation?

TDR

[gonorrhea]

look here in your Seam distro:

\jboss-seam-xxx\doc\reference\en-US\pdf

[danielc.roth]

Maybe <h:outputLink value="#{messages['network.diagram.url']}" escape="false">

[gonorrhea]

<h:outputText escape="true" value="<input type=’text’ value=’hello’/>"/>

source: http://www.horstmann.com/corejsf/jsf-tags.html

<h:outputText escape="false" value="<a target='new_window' href='" />
      <h:outputText value="#{attach.location}" />
      <h:outputText escape="false" value="'>#{attach.filename}</a>" />

         Replace attach.location by the URL you want to link and attach.filename by the link text. 

source: http://www.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--h:outputLink-encoding-problem-td22799585.html

Apparently, escape is not an attribute of h:outputLink according to pg. 123 of Core JSF, 2nd ed...

I was unaware of the escape attribute in JSF tags until today...