On 8/25/05, Neal Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oi? That's not very nice... I was having a very hard time interpreting that > last "sentence" from the previous email.
"oi" isn't nice? sorry, i was just trying to express that my brain was taxed trying to figure out what needed explaining here. the question about the VVS being held by the request didn't make sense (at least not to me). so then i just explained the basics to make sure we're on the same page there. anyway, i really don't mean to not be very nice. trying to help here... as for my last sentence, i suppose i could rephrase it to say that full toolbox support (the "standalone" stuff) is more work than just hacking the MessageTool, but it is also a more flexible solution and may be worth the extra effort in the long run. > I completely understand how it works in the normal servlet context. You have > to admit there is a lack of good doc on using this "standalone" as you put it. there's not really any doc on it, so far as i know. that's one of the reasons that it'll be more work. > I appreciate the pointers on where to look. If I go ahead and do the hack, > then I might as well pull Velocity out altogether. I was leaning towards > that before I decided to give it one more try. Hopefully, these resources > will have the answer. if your dependence on Velocity is that light, then you probably wouldn't find standalone toolbox support to be worth the effort. i would recommend that you just create your own MessageTool either by mimicking, hacking, and/or extending the VelocityTools one. > > Thanks, > Neal > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nathan Bubna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:14 PM > To: Velocity Users List > Subject: Re: Struts and I18N > > On 8/25/05, Neal Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Re: Formatting Numbers, etc. - I had read that, but being so wrapped up in > > Struts stuff, I completely forgot about that. > > > > Re: VelocityContext - Hmmm... This is where I thought I was going to have > > an issue. The existing code is just creating a new VelocityContext. I'm > > not sure I understand all of your last question. I see by the doc, that > > VelocityViewServlet has a protected createContext(), but how do I get hold > > of that context? Is the request holding the VelocityViewServlet for me or > > do I need to create my own? > > oi... well, servlets exist to handle servlet requests. requests don't hold > servlets. :) whether or not a servlet handles a particular request depends > on the webapp configuration in your web.xml file. typically, the VVS > (VelocityViewServlet) will only handle a request if it is a request for a > velocity template. (Tim Colson made a nice graphic illustration of this for > our VelocityStruts docs-- http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/struts/). > > when the VVS gets a request, it creates a special ChainedContext for it and > attaches a "toolbox". The contents of the toolbox are determined by your > toolbox.xml file (your web.xml should tell the VVS where this file is). > > so, all this is to say... it doesn't seem likely that the VVS is getting > involved with the HTTP request that is creating these emails. > i'm really not at all sure the best way to make that happen. so it's hard to > say where to go from here. if you search the archives for "standalone > toolbox" or look into the ServletToolboxManager class > (http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/javadoc/org/apache/velocity/tools/view/servlet/ServletToolboxManager.html) > you may be able to create an appropriate context for your emails that could > include an initialized MessageTool. > > or, you may just want to hack the MessgeTool to make it so that you can > manually hand it the locale and resource bundle and place it in your simple > context. this might be the easiest way to go for now. > however, in the long run, the flexibility of full toolbox support might be > worth it. > > > Thanks, > > Neal > > > > P.S. Here is the code where we create the VelocityContext: > #snip > > yeah, that's just creating a basic empty context. no special VelocityTools > powers. :) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
