I'm using freemarker to generate a freemarker template. But I need some way to escape freemarker tags.
How would I escape a <#list> tag or a ${expression} ?
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A:
You can use raw string literals to escape expressions and < / > to escape directives:
${r"${expression}"}
<#list>
will print
${expression}
<#list>
ChssPly76
2009-10-29 02:23:33
When freemarker process the file it keeps with < and >
tuler
2009-10-29 17:08:56
${r"${expression}"} works
tuler
2009-10-29 17:09:32
I seem to remember it worked for me. But if not, you can always use ${r"<#list>"} instead.
ChssPly76
2009-10-29 17:19:14
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A:
I'm using the alternative syntax feature. I start the template with [#ftl] and use this syntax.
For the expressions I use the string literal feature: ${r"${expression}"}
tuler
2009-10-29 17:31:25
I use the same approach, which is a bit ugly but works. It gets really nasty if I use a variable of the outer template to define the property access of a variable of the generated template, which looks like this: ${r"${entity."}${propertyDescriptor.name}}and ends like ${entity.creationDate}given that the propertyDescriptor has the name "creationDate".
Peter Becker
2009-11-05 07:44:13