Pardon me if I'm all wrong with that, but I really thought that in the context of the JSR 223 API, templates themselves were considered as scripts.
This API is a wrapper around a scripting engine, that evaluates scripts, which in our case are Velocity templates. Claude On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:52:08 +0530 Dishara Wijewardana <ddwijeward...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Claude Brisson <cla...@renegat.net> > wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:47:35 +0530 > > Dishara Wijewardana <ddwijeward...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Claude Brisson > > > <cla...@renegat.net> wrote: > > > > > > > Well, ok, but it's still not what I asked for: I meant a command > > > > line tool that would, of course, use your JSR 223 API classes. > > > > > > > HI Claude, > > > Sorry for the inconvenience I made. So what you meant is do the > > > above similar kind of thing (a client code) which would not > > > directly goes through the velocity API but through JSR223 API ? > > > If so in that case we would need to add additional methods to the > > > JSR API ? IS that OK ? Is it what you expected ? > > > > Well, the API is meant to be used, and a command line wrapper seems > > to me one of the simplest things we could do as an example. > > > > Why would you need additional methods to the JSR 223 API? Which > > methods? > > > JSR223 API doesn't have a concept like templates which is in velocity. > Hence it does not have getTemplate() method. ( because I have simply > to execute a similar example as given through jsr 223 API, need a > getTemplate() ) > > > > > > > Claude > > > > > > > > > Claude > > > > > > > > On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:31 +0530 > > > > Dishara Wijewardana <ddwijeward...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Claude, > > > > > I was finally able to got a simple code working :-) . > > > > > > > > > > public class Main { > > > > > > > > > > public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { > > > > > VelocityContext context = new VelocityContext(); > > > > > Writer writer = new StringWriter(); > > > > > > > > > > CustomEvent event = new CustomEvent("subash"); > > > > > context.put("event", event); > > > > > Template template = createTemplate("eventtool.vm"); > > > > > > > > > > template.merge(context, writer); > > > > > System.out.println(writer); > > > > > writer.close(); > > > > > } > > > > > > > > > > private static Template createTemplate(String > > > > > vmTemplateFile) throws Exception { > > > > > VelocityEngine ve = new VelocityEngine(); > > > > > Properties properties = new Properties(); > > > > > properties.put("resource.loader", "class"); > > > > > properties.put("class.resource.loader.description","Template > > > > > Class Loader"); > > > > > properties.put("class.resource.loader.class", > > > > > > > > > > > > "org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.ClasspathResourceLoader"); > > > > > ve.init(properties); > > > > > return ve.getTemplate(vmTemplateFile); > > > > > } > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > And here is the template and the out put. > > > > > > > > > > *eventtool.vm* > > > > > > > > > > $event; > > > > > > > > > > Event Created by $event.getName() > > > > > Event Created on $event.getDate() > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *Output* > > > > > * > > > > > * > > > > > This is a test event template: created bysubash on Thu Jul 26 > > > > > 23:57:25 IST 2012; > > > > > > > > > > Event Created by subash > > > > > Event Created on Thu Jul 26 23:57:25 IST 2012 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Claude Brisson > > > > > <cla...@renegat.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Did you mean Velocity maven plugin tool[1] as the command > > > > > > > line tool ? If not can you please direct me to a link to > > > > > > > find the example to follow. Because in the documentation > > > > > > > page there are links to XML tool, View tool, JSP tool and > > > > > > > etc. And couldn't find "command line tool" thing . > > > > > > > Correct me if I am looking for irrelevant. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [1] - > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://velocity.apache.org/tools/devel/maven-velocity-tools-plugin/index.html > > > > > > > > > > > > No, when I say "command line tool", I only mean a plain old > > > > > > Java object with a "main(String args[])" method, that you > > > > > > can call from the command line... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Claude > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@velocity.apache.org