It looks like you never even get to getTemplate(), as velocity would log that access, and certainly log if it couldn't find it.
Because the error handler from VelServlet is returning the html to you that you see, I bet something is throwing an exception earlier than the getTemplate().
Throw a few println's in and let us know...
geir
-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Error processing template
I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here: I can't get
Velocity/Tomcat to serve up a template. The Template and the Login are
virtually the example servlet. Near as I can figure, someone in
Template.merge() is throwing an empty Exception. (Thanks in advance.)
Build: Apache-Velocity-20010117
==============Template===============
<html>
<head><title>Sample velocity page</title></head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<center>
<h2>Hello from velocity!</h2>
<i>Here's the list of people</i>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="100%">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#eeeeee" align="center">
Names
</td>
</tr>
#foreach ($name in $theList)
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#eeeeee">$name</td>
</tr>
#end
</table>
</center>
</html>
==================================
========Servlet=====================
public class LoginServlet extends VelocityServlet
{
public Template handleRequest( Context ctx )
{
Template tmplReturn = null;
HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)ctx.get("req");
String errorMessage = request.getQueryString();
if ( errorMessage.length() > 0 )
{
ctx.put("inputError", errorMessage );
}
String p1 = "Ivan";
String p2 = "Jen";
Vector personList = new Vector();
personList.addElement( p1 );
personList.addElement( p2 );
ctx.put("theList", personList );
try
{
// Get the template
tmplReturn = getTemplate("webapps/BUCValuProf/login.vm");
}
catch( Exception e )
{
System.out.println("Error " + e);
}
return tmplReturn;
}
}
===============================================
=======What I get back============================
<html><body bgcolor="#ffffff"><h2>Error processing the
template</h2>null</body></html>
===============================================
==========velocity log is no help to me=================
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Default Properties File:
org/apache/velocity/runtime/defaults/velocity.properties
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
runtime.log =
/opt/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1/webapps/BUCValuProf/WEB-INF/logs/velocity.log
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
template.loader = org.apache.velocity.runtime.loader.FileTemplateLoader
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
counter.initial.value = 1
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
counter.name = velocityCounter
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
template.path = /opt/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1/webapps/BUCValuProf
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
default.contentType = text/html
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
template.modificationCheckInterval = 2
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
template.asciihack = false
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
template.encoding = UTF8
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] ** Property Override :
template.cache = false
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Log file being used is:
/opt/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1/webapps/BUCValuProf/WEB-INF/logs/velocity.log
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Resource Loader Instantiated:
org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.FileResourceLoader
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Resources Loaded From:
/opt/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1/.
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Resource Loader Initialized.
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Loaded Pluggable Directive:
org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Literal
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Loaded Pluggable Directive:
org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Macro
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Loaded Pluggable Directive:
org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Parse
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Loaded Pluggable Directive:
org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Include
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Loaded Pluggable Directive:
org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Foreach
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Created: 20 parsers.
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro : initialization
starting.
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro : adding VMs from
global VM library template : VM_global_library.vm
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Attempting to find
VM_global_library.vm with
org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.FileResourceLoader
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [error] FileResourceLoader Error: cannot
find resource /opt/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1/./VM_global_library.vm
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [error] java.lang.Exception: Can't find
VM_global_library.vm!
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro : global VM library
template macro registration complete.
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro : no local VM library
template used.
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro : allowInline = true :
VMs can be defined inline in templates
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro :
allowInlineToOverride = false : VMs defined inline may NOT replace
previous VM definitions
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro : allowInlineLocal =
false : VMs defined inline will be global in scope if allowed.
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro : messages on : VM
system will output information messages
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocimacro : initialization
complete.
Wed Jan 17 12:10:21 EST 2001 [info] Velocity successfully started.
======================================================================
(Tomcat logs are equally uninformative.)
