It's kind of hard to review that patch because your editor seems to have
changed spaces to tabs, so every line looks like a new line. Can you turn
off that "tabify" behavior and create a new patch?

- Dave



On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Greg Huber <gregh3...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dave,
>
> Here is a patch to get the macros to reload from the WEB-INF directory
> (#parse(..)).  The normal way velocity does reloading not apply for
> roller as the themes are stored in the
> SharedThemeFormDirectory/WebsiteCustomTheme format and there is no
> available mechanism for velocity to reload roller, even if we could
> somehow workout if one file changed.
>
> (See velocity tools WebappResourceLoader.java for inspiration)
>
> ##
>
> To get it to work, disable caching >>
> webapp.resource.loader.cache=false, and set  >>
> velocimacro.library.autoreload=true.
>
> velocity.properties
> # for the loader we call 'webapp', use the WebappResourceLoader
> webapp.resource.loader.description=Webapp Resource Loader
>
> webapp.resource.loader.class=org.events.ui.rendering.velocity.WebappResourceLoader
> #webapp.resource.loader.cache=true
> webapp.resource.loader.cache=false
>
> webapp.resource.loader.path=/WEB-INF/velocity,/WEB-INF/velocity/templates,/WEB-INF/velocity/templates/feeds,templates/weblog,templates/planet
> webapp.resource.loader.modificationCheckInterval=2
>
> # Change to false for deployment environments.
> # Caching for the 'class' & 'webapp' ResourceLoaders must be false for
> this to work
> #velocimacro.library.autoreload=false
> velocimacro.library.autoreload=true
>
> ##
>
> Its driven from modifying the weblog theme, eg, change
> WEB-INF/velocity/weblog.vm, then trigger the update by changing the
> themes/basic/weblog.vm template (with theme reloading on, and logged
> in!).
>
> ##
>
> Java mods to get it to work:
>
> Remove any paths from templates .vm called from the code and add them
> to the velocity properties webapp.resource.loader.path.
>
> searched on: templates/
>
> ##
>
> We could also change the order:
>
> resource.loader = webapp, theme, roller, class
> to
> resource.loader =  theme, roller, webapp, class
>
> Which would reduce some checking.
>
> ##
>
> Planet stuff, I have tried to do the required, but have not tested, as
> do not have planet setup/running.
>
> ##
>
> Should make the mobile theme dev a bit easier!
>
> Cheers Greg
>



-- 
Dave M. Johnson
Apache Roller PMC Chair
http://rollerweblogger.org/roller

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