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How to use HTML in grails messages.properties for mail sending

Answer 1

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From the docs:

<g:encodeAs codec="HTML">
   Profile for user ${user.name} is:
   <g:render template="/fragments/showprofile"/>
</g:encodeAs>

Brian 2010-07-02 14:46:20

This works in the wrong direction; now the <br/> in the messages.properties is displayed as <br/>

werner5471 2010-07-03 08:20:52

Answer 2

+1 A:

Can you not do the localisation in the GSP using the message tag, similar to the following? Controller -

sendMail {
    to "[email protected]"
    subject "cheese"
    html g.render(template:"myTemplate")
}

And then in your _myTemplate.gsp -

<%@ page contentType="text/html" %>
<html><head></head>
<body>
    <p>test: <g:message code="a.test"/></p>
</body>
</html>

And then in messages.properties -

a.test=this <br/><br/> is a test

This way works fine for me (Grails 1.3.1, mail 0.9), I get 2 line breaks in the html email received. Any reason you can't do it this way?

Chris 2010-07-06 12:17:59

Actually in my case the text from messages.properties is saved as a String in a persisted class beforehand, and this is then passed to the view. Of course I could theoretically store the message code instead, but then I'd also need to store the parameters that should be used later on, so I'd rather go for storing the message directly... But I guess I'm gonna use your solution as a fallback solution if it doesn't work any other way, so thank you!

werner5471 2010-07-08 06:28:39

Answer 3

+1 A:

Found the solution here. Easiest way is just to use <%=variableWithHTMLTextFromMessagesProperties%> instead of ${variableWithHTMLTextFromMessagesProperties}. This stops the HTML escaping.

werner5471 2010-07-08 07:08:40

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