CHANGES.md

Jinjava Releases

2024-12-06 Verision 2.7.4 (Maven Central)

• Implement jinja2.ext.loopcontrols extensions (break and continue)
• Apply whitespace rules for LStrip and Trim to comment blocks

2024-09-12 Version 2.7.3 (Maven Central)

• Add support for numeric keys in map literal
• Add feature to consider undefined variable a TemplateError
• Improve Optional value serialization
• Fix bug where extends roots were processed inside of the RenderFilter
• Don't allow illegal characters in XmlAttrFilter
• Limit string length in + and ~ operators
• Fix various RuntimeExceptions in filters and functions
• Updates dependency versions

2024-02-12 Version 2.7.2 (Maven Central)

• Use interpreter's locale for strftime functions
• Prevent infinite hashCode recursion in PyList or PyMap
• Support aliasing macro function names in {% from %} tag
• Add whitespace trimming functionality for notes and expressions
• Add feature to prevent accidental expressions from being output
• Add length-limiting to |render filter and add |closehtml filter
• Add length-limiting to |tojson filter
• Make |pprint filter output in JSON format
• Allow for loop with null values
• Add length-limiting when coercing strings
• Add ECHO_UNDEFINED feature
• Various PRs for eager execution to support two-phase rendering.

2023-08-11 Version 2.7.1 (Maven Central)

• Introduce {% do %} blocks
• Add warnings for unclosed tokens
• Fix |default(null) behavior
• Improve EscapeJinjavaFilter
• Improve BeanELResolver Extensibility
• Add snake_case serialization config option
• Add generic node pre/post processors
• Upgrade jackson to 2.14.0
• Upgrade jsoup to 1.15.3
• Upgrade guava to 31.1
• Add feature flags to JinjavaConfig
• Make restricted methods and properties configurable
• Gracefully handle invalid escaped quotes
• Warn when datetime filters use null arguments
• Fix interpreter scope inside striptags filter
• Fix various RuntimeExceptions in filters and functions
• Various PRs for eager execution to support two-phase rendering.

2023-03-03 Version 2.7.0 (Maven Central)

• Use number operations for multiply and divide filters
• Add config to require whitespace in tokens
• Make reject filter the inverse of select filter
• Make ObjectMapper configurable via JinjavaConfig
• Limit rendering cycle detection to expression nodes
• Add URL decode filter
• Fix truthiness of numbers between 0 and 1
• Fix macro function scoping inside of another macro function
• Handle thread interrupts by throwing an InterpretException
• Fix right-side inline whitespace trimming
• Fix Jinjava functionality for duplicate macro functions and call tags
• Fix custom operator precedence
• Parse leading negatives in expression nodes
• add keys function to dictionary
• Update title filter to ignore special characters
• add unescape_html filter
• Move object unwrap behavior to config object
• Get best invoke method based on parameters
• Create format_number filter
• Get current date and time from a provider
• Create context method for checking if in for loop
• Filter duplicate template errors
• Fix various NullPointerExceptions in filters and functions
• Various changes to reduce non-deterministic behavior
• Various changes to improve datetime formatting and exception handling
• Various PRs for eager execution to support two-phase rendering.

2021-10-29 Version 2.6.0 (Maven Central)

• Create interface for object truth values
• Catch concurrent modification in for loop
• Add Originating Exception Message For A TemplateSyntaxException
• Throw a template error when attempting to divide by zero
• Make unixtimestamp behave the same as System.currentTimeMillis()
• handle null argument in range function
• Track Current Processed Node In The Context
• Add Base 64 encode and decode filters

2021-09-02 Version 2.5.10 (Maven Central)

• Make LazyExpression memoization disable-able
• Add new MapELResolver with type coercion to support accessing enum keys
• Add methods to remove error from interpreter, get the last error, and remove the last error
• Pass value of throwInterpreterErrors to child contexts
• Support Assignment Blocks with Set tags
• Handle spaces better in for loop expressions
• Support "not in"
• Set propertyResolved after evaluating the AbstractCallableMethod
• Limit infinite evaluation from recursive extends tags
• Fix striptags to clean HTML instead of parsing
• Various PRs for eager execution to support two-phase rendering.

2021-05-21 Version 2.5.9 (Maven Central)

• fix how current paths are tracked via multiple levels of inheritance with the {% extends %} tag

2021-05-20 Version 2.5.8 (Maven Central)

• Various PRs for eager execution to support two-phase rendering.
• Add rangeLimit to JinjavaConfig
• Add namespace functionality
• Fix capitalize and title filters

2021-04-09 Version 2.5.7 (Maven Central)

• Various PRs for support EagerTokens and two-phase rendering via ChunkResolver.
• Preserve Raw Tags Config
• Change config name to preserveForFinalPass
• Ensure that after pushing the interpreter, it gets popped
• Python Booleans and Filter base with parsing
• toyaml/fromyaml filters
• Add ChunkResolver to partially resolve expressions
• Simply JinjavaConfig construction
• Add size limited pymaps and pylists
• Remove overrides for append and insert
• Filter upgrades to support kw params
• Check if list index is numeric before parsing to int
• Rethrow CollectionTooBigExceptions in resolver
• Add error for collection too big
• Fix args for aliased functions
• Add filter to interpret a string early
• Variable function evaluator
• Check that disabled library map isn't null
• Pyish String representations of objects
• Intial support for vsCodeTagSnippets
• Fix documentation for truncate function
• Fix bug with whitespace controls not applying properly
• Allow replace filter on non-strings
• Add function and filter to convert string to date
• Expose jinjava snippets throught the jinjava object
• Output pyish versions of objects using legacy override flag
• Trim before checking if expression is quoted
• Fix tuple parsing bug
• Fix NPE around code snippets documentation

2020-10-07 Version 2.5.6 (Maven Central)

• Accept ip address without network prefix in ipaddr('address') filter
• Expression test parity with jinja including isIterable
• Support IN operator for dictionaries
• Disallow adding a pyMap to itself
• Disallow adding a map to itself

2020-06-23 Version 2.5.5 (Maven Central)

• TagCycleException was thrown when rendering template that doesn't have any cycles
• Make global context thread-safe
• Defer variables used in deferred
• Check for nulls in range function
• Fix for "Equalto operator doesn't work in "or" statement (== does)"

2020-05-01 Version 2.5.4 (Maven Central)

• Remove hacky replaceL behavior
• Add over limit to template errors
• Fix several parse errors
• Add support for Custom Token Scanner Symbols
• Remove print statements from test
• Check for null Config
• Remove reference to TokenScannerSymbols in Nodes and Tokens
• Add to host blacklist for security
• Update blacklist error message copy
• Allow ELResolver to be configured
• Add interpreter to blacklist

2020-03-06 Version 2.5.3 (Maven Central)

• Return empty string for un-evaluated lazy expression
• Add millis precision to unixtimestamp function
• Fix implementation for slice filter
• Implement safe filter as SafeString and handle SafeString in filters, functions and expressions
• Add PyList support to ForTag
• Change DefaultFilter to implement AdvancedFilter
• Adds dict support for DefaultFilter
• Add basic deferred value support for from tag
• Fix template error line numbers
• Track dependencies in FromTag
• Lower logging level for truncate
• Handling for OutputTooBigException
• Serialize lazy expression as its underlying value
• Return image when calling toString for LazyExpression
• More supplier conversions
• Avoid tag cycles when keeping track of parent paths for blocks
• Add python list operations to PyList
• Fix NPE with lazy expression in intermediate expression resolution
• Create new class that lazily resolves
• Upgrade map filter to advanced filter, improve error messages, and pass through args for filters
• enable more checkstyle rules
• Add codeStyleChecker

2019-07-11 Version 2.5.2 (Maven Central)

• Add type conversion to collection expression tests
• Change initialization of JinjavaInterpreter to instantiation
• Resolve Failure on Unknown Incompatible with default filter
• Add initial support for resolving relative paths
• Add dummy object for validation mode
• Implements equals() and hashCode() methods for TemplateError

2019-06-07 Version 2.5.1 (Maven Central)

• Support more ipaddr filters
• Upgrade to newer basepom
• Support empty bracket implicit index syntax
• Support nominative date formats
• Add a warning for unclosed comments
• Add a warning when there is no matching start tag for an end tag
• Add child dependency to parent dependencies
• Rewrite sort filter to address several problems
• Fix cycle reference during serialization
• Add support for resolving relative paths in separate files
• Return long value from int filter if over max int length
• Use type converter when evaulting 'in'
• Only add max depth error when not in validation mode
• Expand documentation factory with new fields
• Allow ability to set a max recursion depth in config

2019-02-05 Version 2.5.0 (Maven Central)

• Render node in include tag in the same interpreter scopes
• Fix expression resolver in include and from tag
• Add root and log filters
• Update expression resolver to return null instead of blank string
• Expression resolver fixed in import tag
• Error and documentation overhaul
• Allow partial evalutation of templates

2019-02-05 Version 2.4.15 (Maven Central)

• Upgrade format filter to advanced filter
• Allow null in string expression tests
• Support negative indices in list slices
• Add max string length configuration
• Removed uses of Throwables.propagate
• Allow tags to declare themselves safe for execution in validation mode

2019-01-08 Version 2.4.14 (Maven Central)

• Critical fix for elif statements

2019-01-07 Version 2.4.13 (Maven Central)

• Add support for expressions in selectattr and rejectattr
• Add filters for datetime arithmetic
• Add conversion to Java datetime format for strtotime
• Add set theory filters such as union, intersect and difference
• Add validation mode for extended syntax checking
• Better handling for out of range values in ranage function

2018-11-21 Version 2.4.12 (Maven Central)

• Adds regex_replace filter
• Removes some usage of Java 8 streams to fix a bytecode issue

2018-10-23 Version 2.4.11 (Maven Central)

• Add function for getting start of day

2018-10-19 Version 2.4.10 (Maven Central)

• Support negative array indices

2018-10-15 Version 2.4.9 (Maven Central)

• Add ipaddr filter to test valid IP addresses
• Enable nested properties for selectattr and rejectattr
• Add do tag to evaluate expressions without print
• Add support for timezone conversions in datetimeformat filter
• Add prefix function for ipaddr filter

2018-09-07 Version 2.4.8 (Maven Central)

• Bug fix for trunc division and power operations

2018-08-31 Version 2.4.7 (Maven Central)

• Do not allow returning objects of type Class

2018-08-29 Version 2.4.6 (Maven Central)

• Fix a memory leak in the global context
• Do not allow calling getClass() on objects

2018-08-16 Version 2.4.5 (Maven Central)

• Limit the number errors
• Detect fromTag cycle
• Make jinjajava interpreter render timings trackable
• Add raw object to group in groupby filter
• Register json filters
• Add filter to convert JSON string to Map
• Add filter to convert objects to JSON
• Deepen equalto expression test comparison

2018-07-10 Version 2.4.4 (Maven Central)

• Fix calling macros with kwargs
• Limit the size of strings in TemplateErrors

2018-06-13 Version 2.4.3 (Maven Central)

• Wrap items in for loop with "PyIsh" equivalents

2018-06-01 Version 2.4.2 (Maven Central)

• Upgrade jsoup to address CVE

2018-04-22 Version 2.4.1 (Maven Central)

• Use AdvancedFilter for selectattr filter
• Java 9 Support
• Adds negation for expressions ("is not")
• Fix column numbers in syntax errors
• When reporting errors, preserve casing
• Populate fieldName in TemplateSyntaxExceptions
• Reintroduce stricter parsing in int and float filters

2018-02-26 Version 2.4.0 (Maven Central)

• Make int/float parsing locale aware

2018-02-09 Version 2.3.6 (Maven Central)

• Add more sequence expression tests
• Don't put stack trace in the exception message

2018-01-26 Version 2.3.5 (Maven Central)

• Add new EscapeJinjavaFilter

2017-11-30 Version 2.3.4 (Maven Central)

• Preserve groupby order of elements

2017-11-16 Version 2.3.3 (Maven Central)

• always evaluate tags and control structures in nested expressions

2017-11-14 Version 2.3.2 (Maven Central)

• select filter now supports expression tests with arguments like 'equalto'
• TemplateErrors now include a scope depth

2017-10-30 Version 2.3.0 (Maven Central)

• Add column numbers to error messages

2017-10-24 Version 2.2.10 (Maven Central)

• Use code of bad syntax as field name for TemplateSyntaxExceptions

2017-08-31 Version 2.2.9 (Maven Central)

• Apply resolved functions, expressions, and values to all parents of Context object

2017-08-12 Version 2.2.8 (Maven Central)

• Prevent recursion in Jinjava.
• Fix failsOnUnknownTokens.
• Add EscapeJson filter.

2017-08-12 Version 2.2.7 (Maven Central)

• Delegate toString() method on PyMap

2017-08-03 Version 2.2.6 (Maven Central)

• Limit size of output when building strings

2017-08-02 Version 2.2.5 (Maven Central)

• Enable configuration of a non-random number generator for tests

2017-08-01 Version 2.2.4 (Maven Central)

• Allow the use of filters including upper case letters: #132
• Add function to apply resolved strings from one Context object to another: #133

2017-07-21 Version 2.2.3 (Maven Central)

• Make nested expressions configuration default to true.

2017-07-19 Version 2.2.2 (Maven Central)

• Disable interpretation of nested expressions with a configuration.

2017-06-14 Version 2.2.1 (Maven Central)

• Includes field name in unknown tag error

2017-05-12 Version 2.2.0 (Maven Central)

• Removes FileResourceLocator as a default ResourceLocator to close a security hole. See the README for details on how to reenable it.

2017-04-11 Version 2.1.19 (Maven Central)

• preserve order of named parameters

2017-04-10 Version 2.1.18 (Maven Central)

• fix bug when passing null argument to filter

2017-03-31 Version 2.1.17 (Maven Central)

• added config option to limit the rendered output size
• added named parameter support for filters
• added type() function

2017-03-09 Version 2.1.16 (Maven Central)

• disabled functions, filters and tags now add to template errors rather than throwing a fatal exception

2017-01-18 Version 2.1.15 (Maven Central)

• shaded JUEL
• added failOnUnknownTokens mode which is similar to Jinja's StrictUndefined

2016-11-18 Version 2.1.14 (Maven Central)

• Enabled manual whitespace control by ending or closing tags with {%- or -%}
• Fixed issue with passing arguments to rejectattr

Version 2.1.13 (Maven Central)

• Added support for disabling specific functions, filters and tags

Version 2.1.12 (Maven Central)

• Added ** and // operators
• Fixed issue with passing arguments to expression tests

Version 2.1.11 (Maven Central)

• Add additional specific error enums
• Add escapeJS filter
• Allow null expressions as target of replace filter

Version 2.1.10 (Maven Central)

Version 2.1.9 (Maven Central)

• Exclude 'caller' from recursive macro check

Version 2.1.8 (Maven Central)

• Add additional category information and error message tokens to TemplateError
• Add range function
• Update ListFilter to work with strings
• Do not allow macros to be called recursively
• Update checkstyle to 2.17

Version 2.1.7 (Maven Central)

• Updated RawTag to not evaluate tags nested within it

Version 2.1.6 (Maven Central)

• Added new bool filter to return boolean value from string
• Added record of expressions and values evalulated

Version 2.1.5 (Maven Central)

• Add support for java.util.Optional properties, nested properties in EL expressions

Version 2.1.4 (Maven Central)

• fixed ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when importing template with no trailing newline

Version 2.1.3 (Maven Central)

• Added two new expression tests for strings: "is string_startingwith" and "is string_containing"
• Added support for multi-variable set in set tag (@amannm)
• Added new detail dimension to TemplateError: ErrorItem

Version 2.1.2 (Maven Central)

• Use resolved path value in include tag cycle detection
• Store autoEscape flag in context outside of user-editable properties
• Store superBlock reference in context outside of user-editable properties
• make EL resolver read-only by default, expose as config parameter
• restrict certain methods/properties in object expressions

Version 2.1.1 (Maven Central)

• Better error messages for invalid assignment in expression
• Allow for locale-based date formatting in StrftimeFormatter
• Use configured locale for Functions.datetimeformat

Version 2.1.0 (Maven Central)

• Refactored node render logic to return richer OutputNode instances, removing a need for a special intermediate string value in text output
• Refactored cycle detection in import and include tags to remove use of special named vars in context
• Fix bug to properly detect cycles in extends tag
• Fix infinite recursion bug in resolveBlockStubs when block contains self-reference

Version 2.0.11 (Maven Central)

• Renaming JinjavaInterpreter.renderString() to renderFlat() to better signify its purpose
• Released build for jdk7 as version 2.0.11-java7

Version 2.0.10 (Maven Central)

• minor performance enhancements

Version 2.0.9 (Maven Central)

• update truncate_html filter to support preserving words by default, with an additional parameter to chop words at length
• added unique filter to remove duplicate objects from a sequence
• add support for global trim_blocks, lstrip_blocks config settings

Version 2.0.8 (Maven Central)

• Updated escape filter to apply to string representation of all objects, not just string instances
• Reworked variable resolution to use juel rather than custom approach
• Adding ability to track dependencies used in rendering templates
• fix issue with handling escape sequences in quoted strings within block tags

Version 2.0.7 (Maven Central)

• Propagate interpreter errors from child interpreters
• Changed error level to WARN for invalid date format strings, invalid locale strings

Version 2.0.6 (Maven Central)

• Fix ifchanged end tag name
• Fix implementation of autoescape tag
• Fix propagation of InterpretExceptions from tag render
• doc updates

Version 2.0.5 (Maven Central)

• Changed behavior of date filter to be same as datetimeformat filter
• Fixed date format conversion for single-digit values, for %e, %k, %l
• Updated Jinjavadoc to support isDeprecated flag, as well as arbitrary key-value metadata

Version 2.0.4 (Maven Central)

• Fix issue with PyishDate.isoformat()

Version 2.0.3 (Maven Central)

• Upgrading javassist, commons-lang3 library dependencies
• Adding new factory method to Jinjava for creating a new JinjavaInterpreter instance

Version 2.0.2 (Maven Central)

• Adding code snippets to jinjavadoc
• Adding shuffle filter for collections

Version 2.0.1 (Maven Central)

• Adding self-documenting feature to jinjava core
• Updating addition expression operator ('+') to work with lists and dicts

Version 2.0.0 (Maven Central)

• 2.0.x requires JDK 8, as it contains some critical fixes to date formatting for certain languages (i.e. Finnish months)

• The 2.0.x release has some significant refactorings in the parsing code: ** nests the .parse package under the existing .tree package ** consolidating the token scanner logic, updating the node tree parser

• future updates will be able to detect more specific template syntax errors than was previously possible.

• NodeList has been removed in favor of the native JDK LinkedList implementation

Version 1.0.9 (Maven Central)

• changed how validation of object properties happens; previously, jinjava would add TemplateErrors for unknown properties at the context root (i.e. 'foo') and when the property existed but the value was null (i.e. 'foo.bar == null'). the new logic will only add an error when the property isn't found on the given base object.

• creating richer exception hierarchy for more detailed and specific error messaging

• the simple Jinjava.render(String, Map) method will now return a container exception containing all errors encountered during rendering, instead of simply the first one

Version 1.0.8 (Maven Central)

• fixed issue with multiple includes of the same file in a template

Version 1.0.7 (Maven Central)

• added logic to avoid include/import cycles in include and import tags

Version 1.0.6 (Maven Central)

• fixed issue in strftimeformatter with format strings ending in literals
• updated expression resolver to return blank strings rather than false for exception cases

Version 1.0.5 (Maven Central)

• fixed issue in sort filter when using nested attribute

Version 1.0.4 (Maven Central)

• Fix issue where HelperStringTokenizer could return a null last value
• Added unless tag, for inverse-if functionality
• Implemented from tag for importing specific named variables from another context

Version 1.0.3 (Maven Central)

• Adding python methods dict.update() and date.isoformat() to analogous types

Version 1.0.2 (Maven Central)

• Fix issue with closure scope lookups within macro functions

Version 1.0.1 (Maven Central)

• Properly implement call tag syntax
• Fix issue with declaring a list as a default method parameter value
• Adding string split built-in filter

Version 1.0.0 (Maven Central)

• Initial Public Release