Prevent Apache Velocity from escaping

Question

My template goes like this

 <tr> <td style="white-space:normal">$claim.getClaimId()</td> <td style="white-space:normal">$claim.getStatus().getValue()</td> <td style="white-space:normal; text-align:left"> $claim.getComment() </td> </tr> 

Now, when I try to build the template with the following string in the comment field "Today's weather forecast is", velocity ends up rendering it as

How do I prevent it from escaping my characters?

Answer 1

Velocity is format-agnostic. It won't escape HTML entities by itself, so this encoding is probably done by the getComment() method.

By the way, do you know that you could write $claim.claimId , $claim.status.value and $claim.comment , and let Velocity call the getters itself?