Hi Nathan,
Thanks for your comments. I made the changes but I'm still getting the same
error when $msg.label.portal.welcome gets executed. It's like for some
reason Velocity can't see the Struts ApplicationResource file and can't find
the message.
Any body see what's missing here?
Thanks
Nathan Bubna wrote:
>
> On 2/20/07, janbrito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I'm trying to get Velocity working on a struts application. This is
>> what
>> I've dono so far:
>
> Have you looked at the "struts" example application that comes with
> VelocityTools? That might help you find problems in your setup.
>
>> 1) Added to the project the velocity libraries (velocity-1.4.jar,
>> velocity-dep-1.4.jar and velocity-tools-1.3.jar)
>
> I strongly recommend upgrading to velocity-dep-1.5-beta2. It is quite
> stable and contains numerous bug fixes and improvements. Velocity
> 1.5 final should be released in just a week or so, and there have been
> few changes since 1.5-beta2.
>
>> 2) Added this to my web.xml file:
>>
>> <servlet>
>> <servlet-name>velocity</servlet-name>
>> <servlet-class>
>> org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet
>> </servlet-class>
>> <init-param>
>> <param-name>org.apache.velocity.toolbox</param-name>
>> <param-value>/WEB-INF/toolbox.xml</param-value>
>> </init-param>
>> </servlet>
>>
>> <servlet-mapping>
>> <servlet-name>velocity</servlet-name>
>> <url-pattern>*.vm</url-pattern>
>> </servlet-mapping>
>
> looks good
>
>> 3) Created the toolbox.xml file in WEB-INF dir with this content:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <toolbox>
>> <tool>
>> <key>link</key>
>> <scope>request</scope>
>> <class>
>> org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.StrutsLinkTool
>> </class>
>> </tool>
>> <tool>
>> <key>msg</key>
>> <scope>request</scope>
>> <class>
>> org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.MessageTool
>> </class>
>> </tool>
>> <tool>
>> <key>errors</key>
>> <scope>request</scope>
>> <class>
>> org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.ErrorsTool
>> </class>
>> </tool>
>> <tool>
>> <key>form</key>
>> <scope>request</scope>
>> <class>
>> org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.FormTool
>> </class>
>> </tool>
>> <tool>
>> <key>tiles</key>
>> <scope>request</scope>
>> <class>
>> org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.TilesTool
>> </class>
>> </tool>
>> <tool>
>> <key>validator</key>
>> <scope>request</scope>
>> <class>
>> org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.ValidatorTool
>> </class>
>> </tool>
>> </toolbox>
>
> looks good.
>
>> 4) Created an example index.vm file with only this code:
>>
>> <html>
>> <head>
>> <title>$msg.get("label.portal.welcome")</title>
>> </head>
>> <body bgcolor="white">
>>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>
> looks fine, but you can simplify it a bit by changing
>
> $msg.get("label.portal.welcome") -> $msg.label.portal.welcome
>
>> label.portal.welcome is defined on my ApplicationResource.properties
>> struts
>> file.
>>
>> When I access the index file I get the following error:
>>
>> VelocityViewServlet : Error processing a template for path
>> '/jsp/index.vm'
>>
>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>> at
>> org.apache.velocity.io.VelocityWriter.write(VelocityWriter.java:319)
>> at
>
> i don't remember the exact trigger for this, but this is a bug which
> has been fixed in Velocity 1.5-beta2.
>
> <snip/>
>>
>> So I pretty sure I've missed a step or two when setting Velocity up :)
>
> i'm not sure. do you have logging setup?
>
>> Also, I would like to know how do I replace velocity tags with database
>> values I retrieve on my action classes.
>
> in your action, put those database values into the HttpServletRequest
> attributes:
>
> request.setAttribute("myDBValue", myDBValue);
>
> then, in your template, just do:
>
> $myDBValue
>
>
>> Thanks
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