Odd. Which VelocityViewServlet does your VelocityServlet extend? It
should be extending
org.apache.velocity.tools.view.VelocityViewServlet.
Also, which version of VelocityTools 2 are you using?
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:01 AM, rhild <rh...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Here is the code:
>
> package atr.servlet;
> import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
> import org.apache.velocity.tools.view.VelocityView;
> import org.apache.velocity.tools.view.JeeConfig;
> import org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine;
>
> import atr.utils.SystemProperties;
>
> public class ConfigurableVelocityView extends VelocityView {
> static Logger logger =
> Logger.getLogger(ConfigurableVelocityView.class.getName());
>
> public ConfigurableVelocityView(JeeConfig config) {
> super(config);
> }
>
> protected void configure(JeeConfig config, VelocityEngine engine) {
> super.configure(config, engine);
> logger.info("Using ConfigurableVelocityView");
> String[] props = { "webapp.resource.loader.cache",
> "webapp.resource.loader.modificationCheckInterval",
> "velocimacro.library.autoreload" };
> for (String prop : props) {
> String value =
> SystemProperties.INSTANCE.getProperty("prop");
> if (value != null && value.length() > 0) {
> engine.setProperty(prop, value);
> logger.info("setting custom Velocity property:
> name=" + prop + ",
> value=" + value);
> }
> }
>
> }
> }
>
> here is the relevant piece of web.xml:
>
> <servlet>
> <servlet-name>velocity</servlet-name>
> <servlet-class>atr.servlet.VelocityServlet</servlet-class>
> <init-param>
>
> <param-name>org.apache.velocity.tools.view.class</param-name>
>
> <param-value>atr.servlet.ConfigurableVelocityView</param-value>
> </init-param>
> </servlet>
>
> atr.servlet.VelocityServlet extends VelocityViewServlet. I still use a
> velocity.properties file. I just want to selectively override some
> properties based on the environment I'm in. For instance, I want to leave
> the properties file as it would be for a production environment, with
> template caching on and macro autoreloading off, etc. But in a dev
> environment I'd override those.
>
> When I try the code as shown I get no exceptions thrown or additional log
> mesages from Velocity. There is no indication that my code above runs as
> the log messages don't appear and the behavior of velocity does not change,
> i.e. templates are still cached.
>
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