How to escape handlebars expressions?

[adriano-di-giovanni]

I have strings that contain handlebars expressions, as follows

POST /templates
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "text": "{{ping}}"
}

How do I escape {{ping}} to avoid restclient treating it as a variable?

Thanks

[Huachao]

@adriano-di-giovanni nice catch, it seems no work around for now, but if you don't define a variable named ping, the request body will still be as is.

[adriano-di-giovanni]

@Huachao, nope. The extension requires the variable to be defined. I escaped the handlebars extension as follows

POST /templates
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "text": "\u007b\u007bping\u007d\u007d"
}

[Huachao]

@adriano-di-giovanni If not defined, it just shows an error and won't break the outgoing request

[vsnthdev]

I'm also having to send Handlebars strings in my payload and VSCode says there's an error. Thanks @adriano-di-giovanni for a workaround, I'll be also doing the same until a proper solution is implemented.