Re: Problem with decimal in most recent snapshot

[Will Glass-Husain]

Thanks for reporting back.  That's helpful - I submitted the NPE as a bug. 
Good luck.
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34478

WILL
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Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: Problem with decimal in most recent snapshot


Thank you so much Nathan.  I have spent much time today reading and 
rereading your words and looking at the code.

I think I understand now.  Thank you for taking the time to explain it.
In general I had been doing things a little bit wrong, but it used to work 
in 1.4.  Now it doesn't.

I need to figure out now how to get the instance of the 
VelocityViewServelet for use in my email template merger.  Not sure how to 
do it but looking around.

I had another problem that I think can help others in the future.  In 
looking through the archives I noticed other people having the same null 
pointer exception I was having.  I went through the code and noticed that 
if a person did not "init()" a velocity engine, the resourceManager never 
gets initialized.  When they call the function below in 
RuntimeInstance.java, they get the null pointer exception.

   public Template getTemplate(String name, String  encoding)
       throws ResourceNotFoundException, ParseErrorException, Exception
   {
       return (Template)
               resourceManager.getResource(name,
                   ResourceManager.RESOURCE_TEMPLATE, encoding);
   }
I think once I figure out how to get the VVS and use that for my 
templating, things will just work again with 1.5.

Thank you so much both of you for your patience and help.
JohnE

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