New Post: Strange issue using a static helper method - string result has it's ampersands parsed.

Hi all!

I am experience a very stange issue.

I have a set of static classes which I use to manage some Urls with. I am trying to render one of these Urls as a parameter for a javascript file.

For e.g. in my MasterLayout.cshtml for my C1 Page, I have the following snippet (note that it is surrounded by CDATA)

<![CDATA[
<script type="text/javascript">
  MyJavascript.Widget.init({
    widgetSourceUrl: "@(MyUrlHelper.WidgetSourceUrl())"
  });
</script>
]]>

The helper has a source similar to:

public static class MyUrlHelper
{
  public static string WidgetSourceUrl()
  {
    return "/widget/source?param1=foo&param2=bar";
  }
}

However, once rendered, the html output becomes:

<script type="text/javascript">
  MyJavascript.Widget.init({
    widgetSourceUrl: "/widget/source?param1=foo&amp;param2=bar"
  });
</script>

The & got parsed into a &

I thought that the CDATA wrapper would stop this. The stranger thing is, when I manually put the Url into my master layout, like so:

<script type="text/javascript">
  <![CDATA[
  MyJavascript.Widget.init({
    widgetSourceUrl: "/widget/source?param1=foo&param2=bar"
  });
  ]]>
</script>

It actually renders the output correctly as:

<script type="text/javascript">
  MyJavascript.Widget.init({
    widgetSourceUrl: "/widget/source?param1=foo&param2=bar"
  });
</script>

???? confused face!

Is Composite somehow intercepting the string return from my helper method and doing a transform on the string?? Wizardry! I am at a loss for explanations here.

Has anyone else out there experienced something like this?