# HG changeset patch
# User Aurelien Campeas <aurelien.campeas@logilab.fr>
# Date 1381233748 -7200
# Node ID 4c37808fd284ef872212b6e4eb5ae1ea27285ed7
# Parent  5f2c5eb1a820172ef222c88406c72585dfb6c186
[js] add a selector string escaping function

will help use id strings in jquery selector expressions, e.g:
"foo.[subject]:42" -> "foo\.\[subject\]\:42"

Related to #3154531.

diff -r 5f2c5eb1a820 -r 4c37808fd284 web/data/cubicweb.js
--- a/web/data/cubicweb.js	Thu Oct 10 13:26:11 2013 +0200
+++ b/web/data/cubicweb.js	Tue Oct 08 14:02:28 2013 +0200
@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@
         return null;
     },
 
+    // escapes string selectors (e.g. "foo.[subject]:42" -> "foo\.\[subject\]\:42"
+    escape: function(selector) {
+        if (typeof(selector) == 'string') {
+            return  selector.replace( /(:|\.|\[|\])/g, "\\$1" );
+        }
+        // cw.log('non string selector', selector);
+        return '';
+    },
+
     getNode: function (node) {
         if (typeof(node) == 'string') {
             return document.getElementById(node);