Hi Neal,
have you checked out the Struts example application in VelocityTools?
It includes a number of "mini-webapps" that demonstrate using various
Struts features with VelocityTools. I believe the mini-webapp "app1"
demonstrates use of the MessageTool for internationalization.
also, i'm curious where/how your are generating these emails? are you
doing this within the servlet? is it as part of a servlet request?
where/how are you creating/getting a Context to merge with the
template?
there's a lot that's unclear to me about the way you are approaching
this. and to try and clear up your last curiousity there: yeah, the
VelocityViewServlet is the main way in which the MessageTool is
initialized and added to the Context before processing the template.
so, depending on where/how you are processing your email templates, it
may be easy to get a working MessageTool, or it may not. it's hard to
say without knowing your setup better.
On 8/24/05, Neal Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am new to Velocity and am working on part of our application written by
> someone else.
>
> The app is using Velocity to generate emails. Currently, we have templates
> that have hardcoded English text in them. I am trying to I18N these
> templates so that they pick up text from our .properties files.
>
> I believe I don't have things setup correctly, but I can't seem to find a
> "full" example that explains everything end-to-end, so I can't figure out how
> to verify this. From Googling, I see that lots of people seem to have
> similar problems, but none of their solutions seem to work for me. I think
> it's involved with how we use the templates, but I'm too new to know for sure.
>
> I have dl'd the 1.1 Tools. I have only copied the velocity-tools-1.1.jar
> to my lib directory, because it didn't seem like I needed the rest of it and
> I already have Struts. (Am I wrong?) I have setup the web.xml and
> toolbox.xml just like the Velocity website says. I have updated part of the
> template with the following line:
>
> <head>
> <title>$msg.get("app.title.txt") - Alert Details</title>
>
> #include($styleSheet)
>
> </head>
>
> When I run this I get:
>
> 2:4:43 WARN lang org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException:
> refe
> rence : template = /com/sas/aml/velocity/email/alert_details.vm [line
> 5,column 1
> 0] : $msg.get("app.title.txt") is not a valid reference.
>
>
>
> The real interesting part, to me anyway, is that we are not accessing these
> templates through regular Struts forwards, etc. From what I understand
> VelocityViewServlet is necessary to use the MessageTool? We are using
> VelocityEngine (via mergeTemplate) and I believe that I'll need to replace
> this with usage of VelocityViewServlet?
>
> As you can tell, I'm getting very fuzzy on all of this last part. Any help
> is appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Neal Smith
>
>
>
>
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