Is there a way to encode a URL in velocity template

Question

Excuse my ignorance but I am new to Velocity and trying to fix someone else's problem. I need to encode a URL inside the velocity template. I create a url and as part of the query string I pass in a page name a user created. This page can contain special characters like ëðû. The url would look like http://foo.com/page1/jz?page=SpecialChars_ëðû

Answer 1

To encode URL inside a template you can use:

$esc.url($myUrl)

which is a part of EscapeTool.

Note: This required to use velocity tools jar, in addition to the velocity jar. (It will not throw exception if you will not have it). Moreover, you might want to check you configuration, as describes here

Answer 2

I know it is late. Here is how I solved this today. In the class calling the engine, you could say

configure("esc",new EscapeTool());
context.put("url", "http://www.google.com");

Now in the template you could say

$esc.url($url)