Allow me to paste my very last reply to this list. Regardless of the '/'
vs '\' issue, Velocity does have a very quirky way of handling
backslashes... Best regards.
I suggest you NEVER use the backslash character for path
delimiters. As far as I know, C, C++, C# and Java all understand
the forward slash as a path separator, with the benefits of
portable code and not having to quote and re-quote the
backslash. Therefore, try something like
"//myserver/home/peter/myproj/template".
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 07:50 -0700, Peter Steele wrote:
> Velocity does not seem to properly support UNC paths under Windows. I am
> running from a network drive on a Vista box and want to point Velocity to a
> location relative to my current dir to find my template files. I have code
> similar to the following:
>
>
>
> String templateDir = new File("templates");
>
> String absTemplateDir = templateDir.getAbsolutePath();
>
> Velocity.setProperty(RuntimeConstants.FILE_RESOURCE_LOADER_PATH,
> absTemplateDir);
>
> Velocity.init();
>
> Template myTemplate = Velocity.getTemplate("my_template.vm");
>
>
>
> The getTemplate call fails saying that it cannot find the file. The init call
> explains why: it generates a log message similar to this:
>
>
>
> INFO: FileResourceLoader : adding path '\myserver\home\peter\myproj\template'
>
>
>
> The file path *should* be '\\myserver\home\peter\myproj\template', but
> Velocity strips one of the leading backslashes. The original string is
> correct that’s returned by getAbsolutePath, with four backslashes
> representing two real backslashes:
>
>
>
> \\\\myserver\\home\\peter\\myproj\\template
>
>
>
> This is what I’d expect. This doesn’t seem to satisfy Velocity though. If I
> manually set the string to
>
>
>
> \\\\\\\\\\myserver\\home\\peter\\myproj\\template
>
>
>
> this solves the problem. What I ended up doing though was this:
>
>
>
> String absTemplateDir = templateDir.getAbsolutePath().replace('\\',
> '/');
>
>
>
> This also works, so obviously the problem has something to do with
> interpreting the leading backslash characters that represent the Windows UNC
> path. This seems like a bug to me…
>
>
>
>
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