How to output ${expression} in Freemarker without it being interpreted?

Question

I\'m trying to use Freemarker in conjunction with jQuery Templates.

Both frameworks use dollar sign/curly brackets to identify expressions for substitution (or as th

Answer 1

This should print ${person.name}:

${r"${person.name}"}

From the freemarker docs

A special kind of string literals is the raw string literals. In raw string literals, backslash and ${ have no special meaning, they are considered as plain characters. To indicate that a string literal is a raw string literal, you have to put an r directly before the opening quotation mark or apostrophe-quote

Answer 2

I had to spent some time to figure out the following scenarios to escape ${expression} -

• In Freemarker assignment:

<#assign var = r"${expression}">

• In html attribute:

<a href="/user/${r"${expression}"}"> Some link </a>

• In Freemarker concatenation:

<#assign x = "something&"+r"${expression}"/>

Answer 3

If ${ is your only problem, then you could use the alternate syntax in the jQuery Templates plugin like this: {{= person.name}}

Maybe a little cleaner than escaping it.

Answer 4

Did you try $$?

I found from the Freemarker manual that ${r"${person.name}"} will print out ${person.name} without attempting to render it.

Perhaps you should also take a look at Freemarker escaping freemarker

Answer 5

I can confirm that the

${r"${item.id}"}

is the correct way as an example.

So I kinda full example will look like

<span><a href="/user/user-remove/${r"${item.id}"}"> Remove </a></span>

and the output will be :

<span><a href="/user/user-remove/${item.id}"> Remove </a></span>

Answer 6

In the case when you want to use non-raw strings so that you can escape double quotes, apostrophes, etc, you can do the following:

Imagine that you want to use the string ${Hello}-"My friend's friend" inside of a string. You cannot do that with raw strings. What I have used that works is:

${"\x0024{Hello}-\"My friend's friend\""}

I have not escaped the apostrophe since I used double quotes.