On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Steve Cohen <sco...@javactivity.org> wrote:
> Thanks much, Tim, but in this case
>
> 1) tn is not null, but tn.USFormattedTn is null (perhaps because some
> dependent object failed in the background).
>
> cannot be the case - the function merely applies formatting to the single
> data element within the tn object (in this case the "1-"). Since the log
> entry shows a value for tn, there is no possibility of null here.
>
> 2) There are multiple calls to $tn.USFormattedTn, and the happy path
> cases work fine, but edge cases are misspelled:
>
> there is only one path in this particular template
>
> 3) Someone accidentally calls the .vm directly and not through the
> controller (robots can do this in some cases, or bad links).
>
> impossible. There is only one path into the templates from my code. there is
> no "back door"
>
> 4) The value of $tn goes null between the controller debug statement and
> the forward to the .vm.
>
> I investigated this and found it "impossible" - no code does it anyway,
> although if we are talking about machine glitches, of course, nothing is
> impossible.
>
> So, are we talking about machine glitches, then?
i doubt it, those are rare. has this happened only once? this does
sound like it'll be very difficult to find, especially without more
info than a few log messages. Velocity version? How are you filling
the context? Context class? Are you sure there isn't a race
condition involved? that's always my first suspicion in such
mysterious errors. Under the covers, most standard Velocity Context
implementations use HashMaps. i doubt those are simply losing track
of a key/value pair.
> White, Tim wrote:
>
>>> I can see from my logs that the context passed to this template in
>>>
>>
>> this
>>>
>>> instance had the tn variable and that it wasn't found by Velocity:
>>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 2009-01-20 16:58:15,902 [robo/AIM:jrelay/2701] TRACE
>>> velocity.VelociWrapper - {tn=203-999-9999, lang=English}
>>> 2009-01-20 16:58:15,910 [robo/AIM:jrelay/2701] DEBUG Velocity -
>>> ResourceManager : found /resources/en_US/number/ExitComplete.vm with loader
>>> org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.WebappLoader
>>> 2009-01-20 16:58:15,911 [robo/AIM:jrelay/2701] DEBUG Velocity - Null
>>> reference [template '/resources/en_US/number/ExitComplete.vm', line 6,
>>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> column 56] : $tn.USFormattedTn cannot be resolved.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> When I've had problems like these in the past, here are some things that
>> it's turned out to be (using your variable as an example):
>>
>> 1) tn is not null, but tn.USFormattedTn is null (perhaps because some
>> dependent object failed in the background).
>>
>> 2) There are multiple calls to $tn.USFormattedTn, and the happy path
>> cases work fine, but edge cases are misspelled:
>>
>> #if ($allisgood)
>> Your TN is: $tn.USFormattedTn
>> #else
>> Your TN is: $tn.usformattedtn
>> #end
>>
>> 3) Someone accidentally calls the .vm directly and not through the
>> controller (robots can do this in some cases, or bad links).
>>
>> 4) The value of $tn goes null between the controller debug statement and
>> the forward to the .vm.
>>
>>
>> Just some ideas of the kinds of things that this has been for me in the
>> past - I hope you can figure it out!
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
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