topic Ambiguous call to String.replace() on java.lang.Strings in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ambiguous-call-to-string-replace-on-java-lang-strings/m-p/263598#M216728 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I was trying to use the following code:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>var s = escape(args["a"]);<BR /><BR />function escape(s) {<BR />&nbsp; return s.replace(/[\\]/g, "\\\\").replace(/[\"]/g, "\\\"");<BR />}<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>This is a fairly simple usecase, but I was getting the following error:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">The choice of Java constructor replace matching JavaScript argument types (function,string) is ambiguous; candidate constructors are: class java.lang.String replace(char,char); class java.lang.String replace(java.lang.CharSequence,java.lang.CharSequence)</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN>This didn't make any sense to me, until I realised that it looks like Alfresco Javascript has TWO Strings: java.lang.Strings and "Javascript" strings.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>A workaround is to "cast" it to a "Javascript" string as follows:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>function escape(s) {<BR />&nbsp; return (s + "").replace(/[\\]/g, "\\\\").replace(/[\"]/g, "\\\"");<BR />}<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>Is this intended behaviour?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:36:59 GMT jevon 2012-02-15T05:36:59Z Ambiguous call to String.replace() on java.lang.Strings https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ambiguous-call-to-string-replace-on-java-lang-strings/m-p/263598#M216728 I was trying to use the following code:var s = escape(args["a"]);function escape(s) {&nbsp; return s.replace(/[\\]/g, "\\\\").replace(/[\"]/g, "\\\"");}‍‍‍‍‍This is a fairly simple usecase, but I was getting the following error:The choice of Java constructor replace matching JavaScript argument types (fu Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:36:59 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ambiguous-call-to-string-replace-on-java-lang-strings/m-p/263598#M216728 jevon 2012-02-15T05:36:59Z Re: Ambiguous call to String.replace() on java.lang.Strings https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ambiguous-call-to-string-replace-on-java-lang-strings/m-p/263599#M216729 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>this is Alfresco java script,by default it will treat string object as java string object.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>most of the times things will be more similar to java then javascript in alfresco javascript.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:27:21 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ambiguous-call-to-string-replace-on-java-lang-strings/m-p/263599#M216729 mitpatoliya 2012-02-15T13:27:21Z Re: Ambiguous call to String.replace() on java.lang.Strings https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ambiguous-call-to-string-replace-on-java-lang-strings/m-p/263600#M216730 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>try this one….&lt;a href="</SPAN><A href="http://www.corelangs.com/js/string/replace.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.corelangs.com/js/string/replace.html</A><SPAN>"&gt;Javascript Replace&lt;/a&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Mark</SPAN><BR /><BR /></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 May 2015 06:56:52 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ambiguous-call-to-string-replace-on-java-lang-strings/m-p/263600#M216730 joviermark 2015-05-27T06:56:52Z