Setting property of type String question

[bostond]

Hello,
Hopefully this is an easy question for the forum, but it's a problem I haven't been able to figure out, thus far.

I am setting a property of type String in this fashion:

<bean ....>
<property name="timeFormat" value="%m/%d\n%l%P"/>
...
</bean

However, when the setFormat method is called by the framework, the String's charArray looks like this: (size: 11) [%, m, /, %, d, \, n, %, l, %, P]; Note that the "\n" have been split into two characters, instead of one.

If I set the property manually in my class using a String literal or a String constructor, it does the right thing: size(10) [%, m, /, %, d, \n, %, l, %, P]

Is there a way to tell Spring to behave the same way as a String's constructor?

Thanks, in advance, for any tips you can provide.

[bostond]

Escaping the newline in the xml has fixed the issue:

<property name="timeFormat" value=""%m/%d&#xa;%l%P/>

where "\n" was replaced by "&#xa;"

[Jörg Heinicke]

However, when the setFormat method is called by the framework, the String's charArray looks like this: (size: 11) [%, m, /, %, d, \, n, %, l, %, P]; Note that the "\n" have been split into two characters, instead of one.

That (and your fix) are quite obvious since it's an XML parser reading the string, not Java.

Jörg