Hi Trad-Ex,
Far be it from me to dictate how to develop your app. But I tend to avoid
reflection in Velocity for the following reasons:
--> It's a complex syntax, easy to mess up, hard to read, hard to debug.
--> There's a much simpler alternative (putting objects and methods directly
in the context).
--> This is actively dangerous for cases in which third parties submit
templates as they have full acess to files and other resources on your
machine
Velocity works well as a markup language where text is directly inserted in
a template via properties or method calls. Such templates are easy to use
and easy to maintain. If you need a scripting or programming language there
are much better alternatives.
best,
WILL
On 4/20/06, trad-ex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Barbara,
> Hi Will,
>
> Thanks a lot for your response.
> As Will says, #set can make any class objects.
> In fact, I often make instances of ArrayList, and use them.
> But I think whether there are tools like org.apache.velocity.tools.
> struts.MessageTool or not.
>
> I will follow Will's advice to implement methods like $util.
> getPropertyResourceBundle( path ) in $util.
>
> BTW, why do you propse to limit to use reflection ?
> It's a powerful way to provide such availability into velocity realm, I
> guess. Would you mind asking you for reasons ?
>
> Best Regards,
> trad-ex
>
>
> >Are you sure? I think #set can be used for any class.
> >
> >I've proposed to limit this to prohibit reflection by default (such as
> what
> >trad-ex is doing), but we haven't applied the patch yet.
> >
> >WILL
> >
> >On 4/20/06, Barbara Baughman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> You cannot use the #set directive to designate just any kind of JAVA
> >> object. See the User Guide for allowable references. I believe the
> >> #set directive you have will automatically call the toString method of
> >> the class in order to set the variable to a valid reference, but you
> >> can check by printing the value of the set variable.
> >>
> >> Barbara Baughman
> >> X2157
> >>
> >> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, trad-ex wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi All,
> >> >
> >> > I tried to load property resource bundle file, but failed to get an
> >> > instance of FileInputStream.
> >> > My code is below:
> >> >
> >> > #set( $fStreamClass = $util.class.forName("java.io.FileInputStream")
> )
> >> > #set( $iStreamClass = $util.class.forName("java.io.InputStream") )
> >> > #set( $stringClass = $util.class.forName("java.lang.String") )
> >> > #set( $bundleClass
> >> > = $util.class.forName("java.util.PropertyResourceBundle") )
> >> > #set( $userNameFilePath = $util.getPortalFile($userNameFile) )
> >> > #set( $resStream
> >> > = $fStreamClass.getConstructor( [$stringClass] )
> >> > .newInstance( ["$userNameFile"] ) )
> >> > #set( $resBundle
> >> > = $bundleClass.getConstructor( [$iStreamClass] )
> >> > .newInstance( [$resStream] ) )
> >> >
> >> > $util object is provided by our application to inject functionality
> into
> >> > velocity context.
> >> > I succeeded to get $fStreamClass & $iStreamClass & $bundleClass
> >> > But I failed to get $resStream & $resBundle.
> >> >
> >> > My questions are:
> >> > 1. Can I load the specific property file in Velocity context ?
> >> > 2. What's wrong with my velocity script ?
> >> >
> >> > Best Regards, and thanks in advance.
> >> > trad-ex
> >> >
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