To demonstrate the problem more clearly and help narrow down the issue, I
have removed everything custom and changed the application to use
"css_xhtml" theme like this:
<constant name="struts.ui.templateDir" value="mx/themes"></constant>
<constant name="struts.ui.theme" value="css_xhtml"></constant>
This causes this error to appear in the JBoss log file:
ERROR [template.FreemarkerTemplateEngine] Could not load the FreeMarker
template named 'form':
ERROR [template.FreemarkerTemplateEngine] Attempted:
/mx/themes/css_xhtml/form.ftl
ERROR [template.FreemarkerTemplateEngine] The TemplateLoader provided by
the FreeMarker Configuration was a:
org.apache.struts2.views.freemarker.FreemarkerThemeTemplateLoader
ERROR [components.ClosingUIBean] Could not open template:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: Template /mx/themes/css_xhtml/form.ftl not
found.
The problem seems to be that BaseTemplateEngine cannot read the
theme.properties file. This method returns null:
private InputStream tryReadingPropertyFileFromFileSystem(String
propName)
My "propFile" name is built up as "mx/themes/css_xhtml/theme.properties" --
this file does exist at that path in my webapp root, but propFile.exists()
returns false on this JBoss 7 application server. The file is definitely
there, but the relative path I specified in struts.ui.templateDir does not
appear to be searched with respect to the webapp's root.
Here's where JBoss puts it on my filesystem:
/usr/local/jboss/standalone/tmp/vfs/deploymentee851be496797b89/rgm-app.war-ccba0b3fcf2c2b22/mx/themes/css_xhtml/theme.properties
I don't know if it's appropriate to teach BaseTemplateEngine about
ServletContext.getRealPath. It looks like I might have some success moving
my templates into the WEB-INF/classes folder such that I do not need to
rely on BaseTemplateEngine.tryReadingPropertyFileFromFileSystem and can
load it from the classloader instead.
