Add new option keepTrailingNewline to Config. Default is false, same as Python jinja2.

Author: jmoraleda

src/main/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/Jinjava.java

@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ public RenderResult renderForResult(
         .getInterpreterFactory()
         .newInstance(this, context, renderConfig);
       try {
-        String result = interpreter.render(template);
+        String result = stripTrailingNewlineIfNeeded(interpreter.render(template));
         return new RenderResult(
           result,
           interpreter.getContext(),
@@ -293,6 +293,18 @@ public RenderResult renderForResult(
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Strips a single trailing newline from the rendered output when
+   * {@code keepTrailingNewline} is {@code false} in {@link Config},
+   * matching Python Jinja2's default behaviour.
+   */
+  private String stripTrailingNewlineIfNeeded(String output) {
+    if (!globalConfig.isKeepTrailingNewline() && output.endsWith("\n")) {
+      return output.substring(0, output.length() - 1);
+    }
+    return output;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Creates a new interpreter instance using the global context and global config
    *

src/main/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/JinjavaConfig.java

@@ -216,6 +216,17 @@ public boolean isEnableFilterChainOptimization() {
     return false;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * When {@code false} (default), a single trailing newline is stripped from the rendered
+   * output, matching Python Jinja2's default.
+   * When {@code true}, the trailing newline of
+   * the rendered output is preserved — matching Jinjava's historical behaviour.
+   */
+  @Value.Default
+  public boolean isKeepTrailingNewline() {
+    return false;
+  }
+
   @Value.Default
   public ObjectMapper getObjectMapper() {
     ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper().registerModule(new Jdk8Module());

src/test/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/TrailingNewlineTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+package com.hubspot.jinjava;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
+import com.hubspot.jinjava.Jinjava;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class TrailingNewlineTest {
+
+  private static final String TEMPLATE_WITH_TRAILING_NEWLINE = "hello\n";
+  private static final String TEMPLATE_WITHOUT_TRAILING_NEWLINE = "hello";
+  private static final String TEMPLATE_MULTIPLE_TRAILING_NEWLINES = "hello\n\n";
+
+  // ── keepTrailingNewline=true (legacy default: preserve \n) ─────────────────
+
+  @Test
+  public void itKeepsTrailingNewlineIsTrue() {
+    Jinjava jinjava = new Jinjava(
+      JinjavaConfig.newBuilder().withKeepTrailingNewline(true).build()
+    );
+    assertThat(jinjava.render(TEMPLATE_WITH_TRAILING_NEWLINE, new HashMap<>()))
+      .isEqualTo("hello\n");
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void itStripsTrailingNewlineDefault() {
+    // Defaults keepTrailingNewline=false (matching Python behaviour)
+    Jinjava jinjava = new Jinjava();
+    assertThat(jinjava.render(TEMPLATE_WITH_TRAILING_NEWLINE, new HashMap<>()))
+      .isEqualTo("hello");
+  }
+
+  // ── keepTrailingNewline=false (Python-compatible: strip trailing \n) ────────
+
+  @Test
+  public void itStripsTrailingNewlineIsFalse() {
+    Jinjava jinjava = new Jinjava(
+      JinjavaConfig.newBuilder().withKeepTrailingNewline(false).build()
+    );
+
+    assertThat(jinjava.render(TEMPLATE_WITH_TRAILING_NEWLINE, new HashMap<>()))
+      .isEqualTo("hello");
+  }
+
+  // ── Edge cases ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+  @Test
+  public void itDoesNotAffectOutputWithNoTrailingNewline() {
+    Jinjava jinjava = new Jinjava(
+      JinjavaConfig.newBuilder().withKeepTrailingNewline(true).build()
+    );
+
+    assertThat(jinjava.render(TEMPLATE_WITHOUT_TRAILING_NEWLINE, new HashMap<>()))
+      .isEqualTo("hello");
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void itStripsOnlyOneTrailingNewlineNotMultiple() {
+    // Python only strips a single trailing newline, not all of them.
+    Jinjava jinjava = new Jinjava();
+    assertThat(jinjava.render(TEMPLATE_MULTIPLE_TRAILING_NEWLINES, new HashMap<>()))
+      .isEqualTo("hello\n");
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void itStripsTrailingNewlineFromRenderedExpressions() {
+    Jinjava jinjava = new Jinjava();
+    assertThat(jinjava.render("{{ greeting }}\n", ImmutableMap.of("greeting", "hello")))
+      .isEqualTo("hello");
+  }
+}

src/test/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/el/ext/AstFilterChainTest.java

@@ -27,7 +27,11 @@ public class AstFilterChainTest {
   public void setup() {
     jinjava =
       new Jinjava(
-        BaseJinjavaTest.newConfigBuilder().withEnableFilterChainOptimization(true).build()
+        BaseJinjavaTest
+          .newConfigBuilder()
+          .withEnableFilterChainOptimization(true)
+          .withKeepTrailingNewline(true)
+          .build()
       );
 
     context = new HashMap<>();
@@ -123,6 +127,7 @@ public void itSkipsDisabledFilterAndContinuesChain() {
       BaseJinjavaTest
         .newConfigBuilder()
         .withEnableFilterChainOptimization(true)
+        .withKeepTrailingNewline(true)
         .withDisabled(disabled)
         .build()
     );

src/test/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/interpret/LegacyOperatorPrecedenceTest.java

@@ -21,13 +21,15 @@ public void setUp() throws Exception {
       new Jinjava(
         BaseJinjavaTest
           .newConfigBuilder()
+          .withKeepTrailingNewline(true)
           .withLegacyOverrides(LegacyOverrides.NONE)
           .build()
       );
     modern =
       new Jinjava(
         BaseJinjavaTest
           .newConfigBuilder()
+          .withKeepTrailingNewline(true)
           .withLegacyOverrides(
             LegacyOverrides.newBuilder().withUseNaturalOperatorPrecedence(true).build()
           )

src/test/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/interpret/LegacyWhitespaceControlParsingTest.java

@@ -21,13 +21,15 @@ public void setUp() throws Exception {
       new Jinjava(
         BaseJinjavaTest
           .newConfigBuilder()
+          .withKeepTrailingNewline(true)
           .withLegacyOverrides(LegacyOverrides.NONE)
           .build()
       );
     modern =
       new Jinjava(
         BaseJinjavaTest
           .newConfigBuilder()
+          .withKeepTrailingNewline(true)
           .withLegacyOverrides(
             LegacyOverrides.newBuilder().withParseWhitespaceControlStrictly(true).build()
           )

src/test/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/lib/filter/SliceFilterTest.java

@@ -7,17 +7,27 @@
 import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 import com.google.common.io.Resources;
 import com.hubspot.jinjava.BaseJinjavaTest;
+import com.hubspot.jinjava.Jinjava;
 import com.hubspot.jinjava.interpret.RenderResult;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Random;
 import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
 import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
+import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 public class SliceFilterTest extends BaseJinjavaTest {
 
+  @Before
+  public void setup() {
+    jinjava =
+      new Jinjava(
+        BaseJinjavaTest.newConfigBuilder().withKeepTrailingNewline(true).build()
+      );
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void itSlicesLists() throws Exception {
     Document dom = Jsoup.parseBodyFragment(

src/test/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/lib/tag/ForTagTest.java

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 import com.google.common.io.Resources;
 import com.hubspot.jinjava.BaseInterpretingTest;
 import com.hubspot.jinjava.BaseJinjavaTest;
+import com.hubspot.jinjava.Jinjava;
+import com.hubspot.jinjava.JinjavaConfig;
 import com.hubspot.jinjava.LegacyOverrides;
 import com.hubspot.jinjava.interpret.InterpretException;
 import com.hubspot.jinjava.interpret.JinjavaInterpreter;
@@ -40,6 +42,11 @@ public class ForTagTest extends BaseInterpretingTest {
   @Override
   public void baseSetup() {
     super.baseSetup();
+
+    jinjava =
+      new Jinjava(
+        BaseJinjavaTest.newConfigBuilder().withKeepTrailingNewline(true).build()
+      );
     tag = new ForTag();
 
     try {

src/test/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/tree/parse/StringTokenScannerSymbolsTest.java

@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ public void itRespectsTrimBlocksWithAngleSymbols() {
         .newConfigBuilder()
         .withTokenScannerSymbols(ANGLE_SYMBOLS)
         .withTrimBlocks(true)
+        .withKeepTrailingNewline(true)
         .build()
     );
     // Without trimBlocks the newline after <% if show %> would appear in output.
@@ -274,6 +275,7 @@ public void itRespectsTrimBlocksWithLatexSymbols() {
         .newConfigBuilder()
         .withTokenScannerSymbols(LATEX_SYMBOLS)
         .withTrimBlocks(true)
+        .withKeepTrailingNewline(true)
         .build()
     );
     String result = j.render(
@@ -291,6 +293,7 @@ public void itRespectsLstripBlocksWithAngleSymbols() {
         .withTokenScannerSymbols(ANGLE_SYMBOLS)
         .withLstripBlocks(true)
         .withTrimBlocks(true)
+        .withKeepTrailingNewline(true)
         .build()
     );
     // Leading spaces before the tag are stripped by lstripBlocks (TreeParser).
@@ -310,6 +313,7 @@ public void itRespectsLstripBlocksWithLatexSymbols() {
         .withTokenScannerSymbols(LATEX_SYMBOLS)
         .withLstripBlocks(true)
         .withTrimBlocks(true)
+        .withKeepTrailingNewline(true)
         .build()
     );
     String result = j.render(
@@ -503,7 +507,11 @@ public void itHandlesBothLinePrefixesTogether() {
 
   private Jinjava jinjavaWith(StringTokenScannerSymbols symbols) {
     return new Jinjava(
-      BaseJinjavaTest.newConfigBuilder().withTokenScannerSymbols(symbols).build()
+      BaseJinjavaTest
+        .newConfigBuilder()
+        .withKeepTrailingNewline(true)
+        .withTokenScannerSymbols(symbols)
+        .build()
     );
   }
 }