Compilation error for variableName = ({anotherVariale}) => sometext i.e. Template Literals

[himanshuvardhan]

Getting compilation error for the mentioned string format.

somevariable = ({anotherVar}) => sometext

getting error at the character `

[vcohen-irvinecompany]

I have a similar problem using minify-maven-plugin 1.7.6. My code is

optionsHtml += `<option value="${options[i].value}">${options[i].name + marketedNote}</option>`;

I get the following compilation error:

[ERROR] illegal character at suite-asset-****-tool.js line 329:32
                optionsHtml += `<option value="${options[i].value}">${options[i].name + marketedNote}</option>`;
                                ^

[ERROR] syntax error at suite-asset-****-tool.js line 329:32
                optionsHtml += `<option value="${options[i].value}">${options[i].name + marketedNote}</option>`;
                                ^

[ERROR] illegal character at suite-asset-****-tool.js line 329:111
                optionsHtml += `<option value="${options[i].value}">${options[i].name + marketedNote}</option>`;
                                                                                                               ^

This is a big problem for us; we're switching to use template literals as much as possible in our JS code, but for Java projects compiled with Maven we won't be able to do that. Please advise a workaround or when a fix may be coming.

[blutorange]

This is because this plugin uses a rather old version of closure compiler that did not support many new JavaScript features yet. In case you are interested, I made a fork of this plugin, removed all CSS support (to focus on one task) and keep closure compiler up to date.