Github user FSchumacher commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/432#discussion_r235128465
--- Diff: src/core/org/apache/jmeter/util/TemplateUtil.java ---
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+/*
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+ *
+ */
+
+package org.apache.jmeter.util;
+
+import java.io.BufferedWriter;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
+import java.io.Writer;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import freemarker.template.Configuration;
+import freemarker.template.TemplateException;
+import freemarker.template.TemplateExceptionHandler;
+
+/**
+ * Class used to process freemarkers templates
+ * @since 5.1
+ */
+public final class TemplateUtil {
+
+ private static Configuration templateConfiguration = init();
+
+ private TemplateUtil() {
+ super();
+ }
+
+ private static Configuration init() {
+ Configuration templateConfiguration = new
Configuration(Configuration.getVersion());
+
templateConfiguration.setDefaultEncoding(StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
+
templateConfiguration.setInterpolationSyntax(Configuration.SQUARE_BRACKET_INTERPOLATION_SYNTAX);
+
templateConfiguration.setTemplateExceptionHandler(TemplateExceptionHandler.RETHROW_HANDLER);
+ return templateConfiguration;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Give a basic templateConfiguration
+ * @return a Configuration
+ */
+ public static Configuration getTemplateConfig() {
+ return templateConfiguration;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Process a given freemarker template and put its result in a new
folder.
+ *
+ * @param template : file that contains the freemarker template to
process
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Is the colon needed here? What does the rendered javadoc look like?
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