Velocity Templates - New Line

Question

I\'ve been working with Apache\'s Velocity engine and a custom template.
The thing is, that I haven\'t been able to generate a String with the corresponding line breaks. I t

Answer 1

In Velocity 1.4 neither newlines in strings works nor does the escapeTool.getNewline() exist. If you do not have the possibility to add anything to the context, here is a Velocity-only hack to generate arbitrary characters:

#macro(chr $charCode $str)
  #set($str="0")
  #set($chars=$str.charAt(0).toChars($charCode))
  #set($str="")
  #foreach($char in $chars)
    #set($str="$str$char")
  #end
#end

#chr(10 $nl)

First Line${nl}Second Line

It uses Character.toChars() to convert the ASCII code 0x0A = 10 to a char[] which it then assembles into a string. This way one could generate any character such as

#chr(129299 $nerd) ## U+1F913 => 0x1F913 = 129299
$nerd
## outputs