From: "Dan Bachelder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If I want to use velocity in a scheduled job, how do I get a handle in such
> a way as to still have my context tools in scope?
You ask a good question - I would like an answer too.
>
> TurbineVelocityService vs = new TurbineVelocityService();
> Context ctx = vs.getContext();
> .
> .
> .
> String myOutput = vs.handleRequest( ctx,
> "screens/RemMail.vm" ) );
>
> myOutput in this case is good except things like $ui and $link are giving:
>
> $ui.sansSerifFonts is not a valid reference.
>
> type errors in my velocity log.
>
> thanks
Here is what I currently do to work around this:
Instantiate UIManager manually and then stuff whatever you need
from it into the context:
Context context = TurbineVelocity.getContext();
UIManager ui = new UIManager();
ui.init(null);
ui.setSkin(); // will use TR.props
context.put("systemname", ui.get("systemNamePlain"));
Doing the same for TemplateLink ($link) is much harder (I have given
up for the moment) as you need a ServletData object in order to
initialise this which in turn requires a bunch of methods in TurbineServlet
to work when they don't.
You will need to check back in the mail archive as I cannot remember
where the discussion ended - I think a fix had been committed for 3.0,
but not 2.1. I think I chased this for a while but reached a dead end
somewhere.
Look at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02783.html
I actually ended up breaking the rules by including a URL to use as the
basis of any links I need in the ui skin file.
context.put("systemurl", ui.get("systemURL"));
Its a hack, but it works as long as you edit the skin file when you move
it between systems (I just code the production system address in my
development system).
HTH
Scott
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