Support for JSP taglibs in freemarker

[isopov]

Freemarker autoconfiguration does not pick up tagslibs, if they are present in the classpath.

[isopov]

Test project is here - spring-attic/spring-boot-issues#2

[dsyer]

I'm not sure that was ever intended to work. If you want to propose a change that enables it in a web app, feel free to send a pull request.

[isopov]

BTW - I hacked this issue the following way - https://github.com/isopov/fan/blob/master/fan-web/src/main/java/com/sopovs/moradanen/fan/WebApplicationConfiguration.java
It required to refer to taglibs with
<#assign security=JspTaglibs["/META-INF/security.tld"] />
instead of
<#assign security=JspTaglibs["http://www.springframework.org/security/tags"] />

[isopov]

What was the intended way to work with spring-security from freemarker based spring-boot application?

[hahashraf]

any word on this?

[dsyer]

Still waiting for a pull request. JSP is an inferior technology and using it undermines Freemarker's advantages (in my opinion), but if anyone needs this feature we are open for contributions.

[wayshall]

a simple solution to fixed this issue
https://github.com/wayshall/spring-boot-pit/blob/master/src/test/java/org/onetwo/boot/core/web/ftl/FreemarkerTaglibsConfigTest.java

[asegarra]

I would like to see this incorporated as well so we can have the full freemarker experience when using it outside of boot, I would prefer to see Spring Security shipping a macro library though.