Item9786: configure fails on FastReport rows with '{' and '}' in field content

I just attempted to run configure and run "Install and update extensions"

And I get

Software error:

Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /var/www/foswiki11/lib/Foswiki/Configure/Dependency.pm line 409.

So that blew the release again.

-- KennethLavrsen - 04 Oct 2010

I have root caused it as far as it is the Compatibility field in JHotDrawPlugin that contains the characters { and } (configure settings so it is a normal thing to put) that causes this field to be truncated and configure then fails to pick up the right value for the version.

-- KennethLavrsen - 04 Oct 2010

I changed the regex to anchor on \n{.....}\n instead of just {.....}. I couldn't think of a way to use FilterPlugin or the new 1.1 ENCODE macro to force { and } to be encoded as HTML entities.

The problem is that passing arbitrary content to macros requires a well-formed (escaped double-quotes) parameter string.

So I hope this gets us out of trouble and we can release.

In the next minor/major release, we should definitely get FastReport emitting proper JSON, which has a well-formed syntax which can deal with all these issues (and the QUERY macro knows how to emit well-formed JSON).

-- PaulHarvey - 04 Oct 2010

The we would need one FastReport for 1.1.1+ and the old for 1.0.X.

There are people that will be on 1.0.X the next 1-2 years. Even more.

I even see Beijing sites still on the Internet

-- KennethLavrsen - 04 Oct 2010

Closing

-- KennethLavrsen - 04 Oct 2010

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