javagroovyapache-commonsstringescapeutils

Why is Apache Commons StringEscapeUtils escapeXML10 not working in groovy?

I have a simple groovy script where I want to escape a String for XML...

 @Grapes(@Grab(group='org.apache.commons', module='commons-lang3',version='3.9'))
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils

 def value = "[Apple MacBook Pro with Touch Bar - 15.4 & Core i7 - 16 GB RAM - 512 GB SSD]"
 StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml11​(value.toString())

As per the docs, it looks like this method just needs a String, so why is it giving this exception...

 No signature of method: static org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml11​() is applicable for argument types: (String) values: [[Apple MacBook Pro with Touch Bar - 15.4 & Core i7 - 16 GB RAM - 512 GB SSD]]
Solution

  • You have a non-printable character in your code:

      Offset: 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F   
00000000: 53 74 72 69 6E 67 45 73 63 61 70 65 55 74 69 6C    StringEscapeUtil
00000010: 73 2E 65 73 63 61 70 65 58 6D 6C 31 31 E2 80 8B    s.escapeXml11b..
00000020: 28 76 61 6C 75 65 2E 74 6F 53 74 72 69 6E 67 28    (value.toString(
00000030: 29 29 0A                                           )).

    See after the Xml11?

    It works fine with normal characters.