Joshua Levy wrote:
>
> (I'm trying to post from this account to avoid the Microsoft
> bugs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] == [EMAIL PROTECTED])
It works! Thanks
> A couple of things:
>
> I think that velocity.log should be mentioned near the
> begining of both the developer's and user's documentation.
> (Now, it is near the end.) Also, I think it should be
> in the javadoc-comments in the examples. Why? Because
> if you make a simple typo in your template, the only useful
> information will be in the log file. So, it is very
> important. However, I think a lot of engineers are going
> to just glance at the examples near the start of the
> documentation, and start to use Velocity. Or, they will
> cut-and-paste the examples. In either case, knowledge of
> the log file is important.
Ok. That's good feedback.
>
> Also, I put a $2d6 in a template, which is illegal. (It
> would have made sense with a custom context.) Anyway,
> the exception from Velocity talked about not finding a
> template. The second exception back had the useful information
> about the illegal template. By the time I saw this, however,
> I had already wasted some time. I assume that the illegal
> template exception gets caught and a 'can not find template'
> exception gets thrown later, and this is confusing. Finally,
> if all variables must start with a $, why not allow numbers
> to start off a variable name? Why isn't $2d6 legal?
you mean a reference called
$2d6?
Because references must start with a letter.
>From the VTL reference guide :
Variables
Notation:
$ [ ! ][ { ][ a..z, A..Z ][ a..z, A..Z, 0..9, -, _ ][ } ]
> At home I have 0.72 (I think) installed, so these issues
> may be gone by now.
No... but you should upgrade. That's pretty old...
>
> I integrated Velocity into a program, and instead of printing
> out a template, it printed out:
> Woo! No ICD!
> that behavior was strange enough so that I didn't even look
> at the velocity.log, and I'm at work now.
That's one of my 'Hm - I'll get back to this, but let me put a funny
enough message - and it shouldn't happen anyway...
Send to me (or the list or both) the code that did it...
> BTW: I like the idea of a template returning the an error
> instead of the text of the template, rather than throwing
> an exception with the text message in a log file. It would
> have been better to see the illegal IDENTIFIER message
> instead of the template, rather than figure out why it returned
> NULL, check the log file, look at the second to last message,
> etc.
?
> I can provide reproducable test cases for this stuff, if needed.
>
Yes pleas on the ICD one...
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Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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