Base64-ing a String in Velocity without using Reflection
The removal of Reflection-based features from Marketo’s Velocity environment in June 2019 was a disappointment — however inevitable — to those of us who push email scripting to the limit.
Requirements like encoding, hashing, encryption, flexible rounding and randomization, XPath queries, and advanced filters/sorts on Custom Objects could no longer be met with Marketo alone. (Webhooks can fulfill a subset of those needs, but with nowhere near the performance and simplicity of Velocity.)
At the prodding of Community user @TM, I set out to see if Base64 encoding, one of the Java methods that used to be callable from Velocity, could be written with “pure” Velocity and public Java methods, without relying on the Reflection API.
I was indeed able to do it... though unlike most of my Velocity work, this one wouldn’t File Under Fun!
You can call the #userlandBase64_v3 macro below in 4 ways:
#1: Basic usage
#userlandBase64_v3("some string")
