[FIXED] Creating your own custom helpers with Freemarker?

Issue

From my controller I set my Model and view like:

ModelAndView mav = new ModelAndView();

mav.setView("index");

mav.addObject("user", user);
mav.addObject("someCollection", someCollection);

return mav;

Now I want to create a helper type object that will take the someCollection and the user object as parameters.

My helper function will output some HTML etc., is this possible?

Solution

You can write macros and directives using FTL or Java, expose them to your templates and invoke them same way you normally do with built-in macros/directives.

Answered By - Vicente Reig