Velocity - How to avoid ParseErrorException when using jQuery?

Question

I\'m trying to add a jQuery post to some JavaScript on a web page. The entire page is built up of several Velocity templates. Everything has been fine until I\'ve tried to add t

Answer 1

Ok, there appears to be two solutions for this:

First, with jQuery we can just avoid using the global alias $ and instead use the jQuery object directly:

jQuery.post(url, myJSONObject, function(result){
~~~snip~~~

In my case, the above works great. But I suspect in other scenarios (non-jQuery) this may not be possible. In which case, we can 'hide' our character within a valid Velocity reference like this:

#set( $D = '$' )
${D}

Source: http://velocity.apache.org/engine/devel/user-guide.html#escapinginvalidvtlreferences

I'd still like to know why the backslash escape didn't work, but the above will at least get me moving again. :)