How to escape curly brackets in .properties file in Struts 1.2

Question

I have a requirement to retain the curly brackets from properties file in my rendered JSP code. Is it possible?

I have tried options like: \{, '{, {{, '{', /{, but no help.

At runtime, I get an exception:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: can't parse argument number

The problem is that struts processes the {} as a placeholder for a runtime value. Any help greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

see here http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/how-to-escape-special-chars-in-resource-bundles.html

use '{' and '}' to escape.

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Just re-read your question looks like it didn't help.

Answer 2

I jumped to this problem just 10 minutes ago. This is my try: put '&#123' instead of '{'. (Reference: http://www.asciitable.com/)

Don't use Oct or Hex code since Java will parse these numbers into { before actually reading the key; therefore, it will lead to the same problem. Only HTML code will work, since Java will not parse it, but the JSP page will