pebble autoescape json - unicode entities

Question

when I use

{% autoescape "json" %}
{
    "key" : "hellü"
}
{% endautoescape %}

the result is

{
    "key" : "hell\u00FC"
}

But I dont want the strings encoded to unicode entities when I'm already creating a utf8 text file with this json string in it - it is just unneeded and unwanted.

The result should just be this:

{
    "key" : "hellü"
}

Any idea how to disable unicode entities in escape json function?

Answer 1

When you see the \\u\u003c/code> representation - that is escaping (not entities). So by using autoescape you escaped the json and that is good practice to avoid XSS variabilities .

If you still want to disable the autoEscaping you can do:

PebbleEngine engine = new PebbleEngine.Builder().autoEscaping(false).build(); 

For the full documentation: https://pebbletemplates.io/wiki/guide/escaping/