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snooperman
snooperman

Reputation: 13

Spring Boot + Freemarker master template

I`m trying to build an app with spring boot and freemarker as template engine. The problem I have is, I want to make a "master template" for all my pages to use. I found out that this is achievable in Freemarker with macros. This is how my indexmaster.ftl looks like:

[#macro indexmaster title="defaultTitle"]
<html>
    <head> css stuff </head>
    <body>
        <div id="content">[#nested /]</div>
    </body>
</html>
[/#macro]

and in the other pages, I use the macro like this:

[#import "/WEB-INF/ftl/master/indexmaster.ftl" as layout /]
[@layout.indexmaster title="My title"]
 ...rest of the page
[/@layout.indexmaster]

The problem I`m facing is, the freemarker "code" is interpreted as text when I access the page

click me

What am I doing wrong? Is there any extra spring boot configuration needed?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1166

Answers (2)

ddekany
ddekany

Reputation: 31112

You need to set the tag_syntax configuration setting of FreeMarker to auto_detect or square_bracket. The default is angle_bracket for backward compatibility. Another option is to start the template with [#ftl], which turns on square bracket syntax even if tag_syntax is angle_bracket.

Upvotes: 1

bkielczewski
bkielczewski

Reputation: 46

Use "<>" instead of "[]" for Freemarker tags.

Upvotes: 1

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