[jira] [Commented] (VELOCITY-799) Optionally add context to itself

["Sebb (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sebb commented on VELOCITY-799:
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The problem is some products using Velocity do not provide any way to customise the context.
For example Maven.

> Optionally add context to itself
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>
>                 Key: VELOCITY-799
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-799
>             Project: Velocity
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Sebb
>
> For debugging scripts, it would sometimes be useful to have access to the context within a VM script.
> For example, one could then print out all the variables that are defined in the context.
> The suggestion is to enable this via a properties file or a system property.
> If the property is defined, its value would be used as the name of the variable holding the context.
> e.g. -Dvelocity.context.variable=ctx
> Obviously feel free to choose a better property name.



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