On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 5:26 PM Jim Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Good question.  I doubt anyone has tried, but that's just a guess.
>

Actually it was tried back in 2016, see here:
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/1981

In particular, see my comment:

"I am checking the Freemarker documentation, setting this flag seems to
enable a lot of non backwards compatible behavioral changes... this needs
to be carefully evaluated and documented for people upgrading GeoServer, or
better, if possible, not done at all unless strictly necessary. Is it
possible to get the html security improvements without throwing in all
these changes?"

Looks like in the meantime Freemarker kept on accumulating more and more
backwards incompatible changes:
https://freemarker.apache.org/docs/api/freemarker/template/Configuration.html#Configuration-freemarker.template.Version-

It seems it's like a lost cause... we might as well upgrade, but maybe find
a way to set the compatibility level to
a given version by system variables.
I am assuming that the Freemarker developers assume whoever is depending on
them controls the templates, and
can update them as they upgrade the FM version. We are not in that
situation, freemarker templates can be put
in the data directory instead.

Another option is to upgrade the library, but force the configuration value
to 2.3.0.

Anyways, agreed that a PR is the way to go, and let's see how bad things
can become (e.g., will they break
built-in templates?).
Oh, all OGC API resource HTML representations are built on Freemarker
templates, and they are visible,
front and center, when using these new services... wouldn't be thrilled to
see them stop working :-(

Cheers
Andrea

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