Deprecated API

Contents

• Interfaces
• Classes
• Fields
• Methods
• Constructors

Deprecated Interfaces

Interface	Description
freemarker.template.TemplateTransformModel	Use TemplateDirectiveModel instead.

Deprecated Classes

Class	Description
freemarker.template.SimpleList	Use SimpleSequence instead.

Deprecated Fields

Field	Description
freemarker.template.TemplateModel.NOTHING	Try not to use this.

Deprecated Methods

Method	Description
freemarker.core.Configurable.getSetting(String)	This method was always defective, and certainly it always will be. Don't use it. (Simply, it's hardly possible in general to convert setting values to text in a way that ensures that Configurable.setSetting(String, String) will work with them correctly.)
freemarker.core.Configurable.getSettings()	This method was always defective, and certainly it always will be. Don't use it. (Simply, it's hardly possible in general to convert setting values to text in a way that ensures that Configurable.setSettings(Properties) will work with them correctly.)
freemarker.template.Configuration.getDefaultConfiguration()	The usage of the static singleton (the "default") Configuration instance can easily cause erroneous, unpredictable behavior. This is because multiple independent software components may use FreeMarker internally inside the same application, so they will interfere because of the common Configuration instance. Each such component should use its own private Configuration object instead, that it typically creates with new Configuration() when the component is initialized.
freemarker.template.Configuration.setDefaultConfiguration(Configuration)	Using the "default" Configuration instance can easily lead to erroneous, unpredictable behaviour. See more here....

Deprecated Constructors

Constructor	Description
freemarker.cache.ClassTemplateLoader()	confusing constructor, and seldom useful; use ClassTemplateLoader(Class, String) instead.
freemarker.cache.ClassTemplateLoader(Class)	it is confusing that the base path is ""; use ClassTemplateLoader(Class, String) instead.
freemarker.template.Template(String, Reader)	This constructor uses the "default" Configuration instance, which can easily lead to erroneous, unpredictable behaviuour. See more here....