Freemarker - only use getter for beans

I have some builder functions in my entities, which cannot be handled by freemarker.

For example, I have the following bean/entity:

public class User{

    private Long number;

    public Long getNumber(){
        return this.number;
    }

    public void setNumber(Long number){
        this.number = number;
    }

    public User number(Long number){
        this.number = number;
    }
}

And my freemarker template is something like this:

<span>${user.number}</span>

which I process on the fly as follows:

User user = getUser();
Map<String, Object> context = new HashMap<>();
contaxt.put("user", user);
Configuration configuration = new Configuration(Configuration.VERSION_2_3_0);
configuration.setObjectWrapper(new BeansWrapper(Configuration.VERSION_2_3_0));
Template t = new Template("usertpl", template, configuration);
String result = FreeMarkerTemplateUtils.processTemplateIntoString(t, model);

Since my entity contains a method "number(Long)", freemarker tries to use this, which is actually a setter - so it is not working.

I know, that i can use the getter in the template, but the template should be defined by users (where I think ${user.number} is more comprehensible than ${user.getNumber()} for those who are not programmers)

So, I'm searching for another solution...

Is there a possibility to configure freemarker so that it only uses the getter (getNumber()) to access the property, instead of using the number(Long)?

You can configure BeansWrapper like that with setMethodAppearanceFineTuner. For the sake of hasty copy-pasters, I will use here a builder instead of new, DefaultObjectWrapper instead of BeansWrapper, and VERSION_2_3_25 instead of VERSION_2_3_0, but this also works with your setup:

DefaultObjectWrapperBuilder owb = new DefaultObjectWrapperBuilder(Configuration.VERSION_2_3_25);
owb.setMethodAppearanceFineTuner(new MethodAppearanceFineTuner() {
    @Override
    public void process(MethodAppearanceDecisionInput in, MethodAppearanceDecision out) {
        out.setMethodShadowsProperty(false);
    }
});
cfg.setObjectWrapper(owb.build());

As of the "experimental" disclaimers in the JavaDoc, don't worry, these will leave experimental status in 2.3.26.