Default escaping in Freemarker

Question

In Freemarker templates we can use the escape directive to automatically apply an escaping to all interpolations inside the included block:

<#escape x as          


        

Answer 1

You don't actually need a WrappingReader to add the escapes. You can just create a decorator around any TemplateLoader, read in the template into a String, wrap the template text in escapes and then return a StringReader that reads the resulting String. To see how that's done take a look here. The only gotcha that I've found is that if you use this approach and include the spring.ftl macros from the classpath they will blow up since they have a <#ftl> declaration at the very top. You can however simply copy spring.ftl into your template path and remove the declaration (and all the escaping directives since you will be escaping by default).