Hey-- would love to see the ability to include system properties in velocity.properties. I use that feature in log4j.properties all the time.
(Incidentally, it's always dangerous to credit individual authorship in an open source project. Jason Van Zyl, Jon Stevens and Daniel Rall were the original creators, with Geir following soon after.) Best, WILL On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Nathan Bubna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:55 AM, csanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > are you deploying to a servlet container? if so, then the > > > FileResourceLoader is not your friend. you should be using the > > > WebappLoader (aka WebappResourceLoader) that is part of the > > > VelocityTools project. It uses servlet context relative paths. > > > > > > > Ahh cool, Ill check that out. I know you're the author so its hard for > you > > to present an unbiased view but are there any penalty performances > moving > > to this loader ? > > oh, and while Claude and i have done some tweaking on the > WebappLoader, Geir was the original creator. :) > > > > > > > > > > i don't think it would be all that hard to add support for including> > > > environmental variables in the properties. you would pretty much just > > > watch for properties either coming in or going out of RuntimeInstance > > > for environment variables and do the replacement there. It would > > > probably be easiest to do this in RuntimeInstance#getProperty. > > > > > > > Ok thanks. > > > > Thanks Nathan, > > Charlei > > > > > > > > > > > > Nathan Bubna wrote: > > > > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:50 AM, csanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Is there anyway we can set relative paths in this file ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > in which file? in velocity.properties? > > > > > > > > > > > > > This is the only configuration file out of dozens that doesn't > support > > this and its making deployment a serious pain. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > are you deploying to a servlet container? if so, then the > > > FileResourceLoader is not your friend. you should be using the > > > WebappLoader (aka WebappResourceLoader) that is part of the > > > VelocityTools project. It uses servlet context relative paths. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Or can I use environmental variables in this file ? That would work > > also. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > sounds like a useful thing to me! > > > > > > > > > > > > > If not - how much development would it take to get this to work ? > It > > might be worth it for us to contribute this to Velocity. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > i don't think it would be all that hard to add support for including > > > environmental variables in the properties. you would pretty much just > > > watch for properties either coming in or going out of RuntimeInstance > > > for environment variables and do the replacement there. It would > > > probably be easiest to do this in RuntimeInstance#getProperty. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Charlie > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Forio Business Simulations Will Glass-Husain [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.forio.com
