On 24/06/07, Nathan Bubna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/23/07, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 24/06/07, Nathan Bubna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > i believe you just need to add a line like this to the texen.properties
file:
> >
> > context.objects.sort=org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.SortTool
>
> Thanks - I looked at that, but the properties file is embedded in the
> jar, and there does not seem to be any way to override it. Seems
> rather messy to have to update the jar.
ugh. we should do something about that. properties should always be
overrideable.
+1
> > once Tools 2.0 is out, i plan to try and find time to provide better
> > integration between Tools and Texen/Anakia/DVSL (or examples, where
> > the current support is sufficient)
>
> Perhaps the parsing of the contextProperties file could be extended to
> behave like the internal file?
not sure. i'll try to remember to look into this. wanna open a jira issue? :)
Will do.
Might be able to provide a patch as well.
> As luck would have it, I have since found a hack to create the object
> directly in the VTL script (so my problem is solved) but it would be
> at lot nicer to be able to extend texen.properties as above.
yeah, i've seen those hacks. definitely not a long term solution. :)
But very powerful ... and easy enough to revert to the properties
solution later.
> > On 6/23/07, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'd like to be able to use SortTools from Texen, but cannot work out
> > > how to add the Velocity Tools so that they are accessible from Texen.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to get access without needing to extend Texen?
> > > For example are there some properties that need to be set?
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