Nathan Green said:
> For a tool to use at the application level, use RenderTool. The other
> Nathan (Bubna)'s javadoc comments are pretty explicit in both tools,
> though they are sort of a footnote... Perhaps the following change
> could be made to ViewRenderTool?
>
> public void init(Object obj)
> {
> try {
> context = (Context) obj;
> } catch (ClassCastException cce) {
> throw new ClassCastException (
> "ViewRenderTool cannot initialize: "
> + "scope in toolbox config may be invalid"
> + System.getProperty("line.separator") +
> + cce.getMessage());
> }
> }
yeah, this is an understandable and easy error to make (using ViewRenderTool
in application scope), and this (or something like it) would certainly make
the error message more intelligible.
> I have not tested the above code, so I may have screwed something up.
> HTH,
no worries. i'll probably go with an instanceof check instead of a try-catch
anyway. :)
Nathan Bubna
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> Nathan
>
>
> Shinobu Kawai wrote:
>
> > Hi Timo,
> >
> >
> >><tool>
> >> <key>render</key>
> >> <scope>application</scope>
> >> <class>org.apache.velocity.tools.view.tools.ViewRenderTool</class>
> >></tool>
> >>
> >>And I get a Digester error (below), which sounds like bad XML... but the
XML
> >>looks okay to me.
> >>
> >>Looking closer -- I see that the example on the web-page has
scope==request.
> >>When I modify the XML snippet, it works fine. So apparently the tool
doesn't
> >>like being in App scope? If so -- kind of ugly error mesg for that.
> >>
> >>Just curious what's going on here?
> >
> > Take a look at
> > http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/view/
> > under "Tool Scopes". You will notice that request and session scopes
> > are set the ViewContext, whereas application scopes are set the
> > ServletContext. This causes the following to happen:
> >
> >
> >>Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException
> >> at
>
>>org.apache.velocity.tools.view.tools.ViewRenderTool.init(ViewRenderTool.java
> >>:99)
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > -- Shinobu Kawai
> >
> > --
> > Shinobu Kawai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >
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