Not Able to Call Custom Macro

Rhythmyx Technical Discussion
1

I’ve created a custom macro and added it to the rx_assembly.vm file, but I’m not able to access it in my velocity template. For example,

macro to replace any pipes (|) or carats (^) with escaped characters

#macro(at_escapePipeCarat $str) $str.replace(’|’,’%7C’).replace(’^’,’%5E’)
#end

Call in template:

#set($url = “&hello|world^?”)
#at_escapePipeCarat("$url")
#at_escapePipeCarat($url)

Output:

#at_escapePipeCarat("&hello|world^?")
#at_escapePipeCarat(&hello|world^?)

Do I need to restart the Rx application or register the macro somewhere?

Thanks,
Veeren

2

Does it work if you define the macro in the template itself, or put

$url.replace('|','%7C').replace('^','%5E')

in the template? (Not sure if the syntax is correct.)

3

Or you could try putting each statement on a new line. (You can prevent whitespace being added by adding ## on the end of all lines, to comments out the carriage return.

Andrew.

4

You need to restart the server or pass sys_reinit=true parameter with a preview request. This will cause the macro file to be reloaded.

5

I restarted the server and the call to the macro is now working.

Thank you all for the help,
Veeren