OK,
I think what you said makes a lot of sense. Pull tools to me are dangerous
because they are difficult to test.. However, in my case, I want to use the
same .vm file to create some HTML in both an action (incase the html doesn't
exist yet) and on a nightly basis via a scheduled job. therefore, since my
.vm file uses $link, I need the pull tool in the context.
Eric pugh
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From: Henning P. Schmiedehausen
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Sent: 7/16/03 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: RunData object not in web post/get?
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>Henning,
>What I *think* I need the rundata for is to have the various $link etc
pull
>tools available. If I do this:
If you really need to do this, please do
VelocityContext context = TurbinePull.getGlobalContext();
This gives you a context with the global tools. All other tools are
either Request or User related so it doesn't make sense to access
them.
In my application I treat pull tools strictly as what they are:
Part of the View, which are used to access information from my
application. My tools are only a thin layer (adapters) over my data
model. If I need to access the data model from outside the view, I go
directly to the model and don't use the tools.
>If I get the context via RunData, then the $link tool exists. However,
I'm
>guessing there is another way?
If you need e.g. $link (which is the template link tool), you're much
better off by doing
TurbineURI tu = new TurbineURI();
... work on it ...
String uri = tu.getAbsoluteLink();
The tool in $link is simply a very thin interface layer over a
TemplateURI object. If you need a TemplateURI object in your
application, just use a TemplateURI (or its non-templated brother,
TurbineURI). That's the whole idea behind the new URI scheme. ;-)
You might want to look at the comment at the begining of TemplateLink.
%-)
Regards
Henning
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