Thank you Nathan!
The log file was, what I needed. I had a bug in one of the macros of my macro-library that caused velocity to throw an exception when parsing it and it didn't continue parse to the test-macro I later tried in VM_global_library.vm
Best regards Robert
Nathan Bubna wrote:
Robert Brandner said:
I use velocity-struts (velocity-dep-1.3.1.jar and velocity-tools-1.1.jar). I configured web.xml as described in the documentation and put the toolbox.xml, velocity.properties, VM_global_library.vm into the WEB-INF directory.
<servlet> <servlet-name>velocity</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet</ser vlet-class>
<init-param> <param-name>org.apache.velocity.toolbox</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/toolbox.xml</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>org.apache.velocity.properties</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/velocity.properties</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>10</load-on-startup> </servlet>
looks right.
Problem is, if I try to add a further macro-package in velocity.properties like this:
velocimacro.library = /WEB-INF/VM_global_library.vm,/WEB-INF/foobar_library.vm
the macros defined in foobar_library.vm are not evaluated. If I put the same macros into the VM_global_library.vm they work.
hmm. what happens if you switch the order of those two files in the property?
I think (and read somewhere) that the servlet does not take my properties file, but falls back to a default file in the jar, where just the VM_global_library.vm is specified as a macro library.
yeah, but if it is only using the default props, then how is it finding your VM_global_library.vm file? the default velocimacro.library property (which comes with the velocity jar and is not overridden by the servlet) should just look for "/VM_global_library.vm" not "/WEB-INF/VM_global_library.vm".
so at first glance, it sounds like it is reading your custom properties, but not as expected.
Another strange thing is, that I get no log file, although there should be a velocity.log file somewhere.
not unless you told it to do so in your custom properties. by default, the VelocityViewServlet logs to the servlet engine's logging mechanism. so, if you are using Tomcat, then look in Tomcat's log folder for the day's log file. the velocity and VVS messages should be output there.
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