On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Will Glass-Husain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.)
hey, what's life without a little danger? :) > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
