Macro not evaluating

[Rob Kischuk]

I'm having one of those bang-head-against-the-wall moments with Velocity
1.4.  I've got a formatter class with the following methods:

 

  public String currency(float amount) {

    Format formatter = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance();

    return formatter.format(new Float(amount));

  }

 

  public String leftPad(String string, int width) {

    if (string.length() >= width) {

      return string.substring( string.length()-(width+1));

    }

    StringBuffer output = new StringBuffer();

    for (int i=0; i < (width - string.length()); i++) {

        output.append(' ');

    }

    output.append(string);

 

    return output.toString();

  }

 

And have defined macros in my template:  

 

#macro(leftpad $message)

  ${formatter.leftpad($message, 8)}

#end

#macro(currency $amount)${formatter.currency($amount)}#end

 

And called them in the template:

 

#foreach($orderLine in $orderLines)

#leftpad($orderLine.quantity)

#currency($order.shippingPrice)

#end

 

Strangely, the #currency macro fully executes, but the #leftpad macro leaves
$formatter.leftpad($orderLine.quantity, 8) after the template has been
processed.  Is there something I'm doing wrong here?  And is there a
different way I should be doing this?

 

Thanks,

      Rob