ImportTool is a thin wrapper around the ImportSupport class that basically takes advantage of the VelocityView structure to automatically set the request, response, and application variables for ImportSupport.
It should be trivial for you to write your own, none-VelocityView-dependent ImportTool and, from there, pretty easy to incorporating caching. On 10/10/06, Peter Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, I saw that, thanks, unfortunately my configuration still uses the original VelocityServlet, and that appears to be a tool that requires the VelocityView structure. I suppose writing a more generic version that incorporates content caching won't be too bad. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Bubna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 3:17 PM To: Velocity Users List Subject: Re: pulling static content from a URL into a velocity template? You mean like the ImportTool? http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/view/ImportTool.html On 10/6/06, Peter Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This seems to me like a problem that (I hope) is a common one and has been > solved. On certain 'impact' velocity powered pages, I would like to provide > non technical content editors the means of adding content to a > specific portion of a velocity template, in such a way that the > content is rendered dynamically and can be changed on a different > schedule and independently of the template itself or the build/deploy > cycle. So basically I would like to include some static html from an > external URL when the template is parsed and rendered. > > Note that the #include doesn't sound like the right approach since > this includes actual files from the template root - I would like to > 'include' the content from an external URL so that the content does > not need to be tied to our build and deploy process and can exist and > be changed completely in our 'static content' area by content editors. > > One idea I had was to make a custom velocity tool that reads the > content in via a Java http get request that can be called from VTL > with the url to get- I like this idea because the tool can be expanded > to cache content for higher demand pages, but I would like to hear some other suggestions. > > -- > Peter Locke > Senior Engineer / Dev Lead > www.abebooks.com <http://www.abebooks.com/> > > t: 250.412.3240 > f: 250.475-6014 > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- > P.S. I'm currently reading What's Bred in the Bone > <http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bx=off&sts=t&ds=30&bi=0 > &an=rob > ertson+davies&tn=what%27s+bred+in+the+bone> by Robertson Davies > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
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