One Question

[Jose Luiz Juniot <ta...@mandic.com.br>]

I really love Velocity, but one thing every worry me.

Why not can I load template by your full location?


Like:

Velocity.getTemplate(new File("/anything/something/mylittletemplate.vm"));

or

Velocity.getTemplate(new File("c:\\something\\mytemplate.vm"));

or

Velocity.getTemplate(new File("d:\\anything\\thetemplate.vm"));



I do not use Velocity only with Servlet. I use with regular application.

Thanks
José Luiz Junior








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Re: One Question

["Geir Magnusson Jr." <ge...@adeptra.com>]

On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 01:03 PM, Jose Luiz Juniot wrote:

> I really love Velocity, but one thing every worry me.
>
> Why not can I load template by your full location?
>
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> Like:
>
> Velocity.getTemplate(new 
> File("/anything/something/mylittletemplate.vm"));
>
> or
>
> Velocity.getTemplate(new File("c:\\something\\mytemplate.vm"));
>
> or
>
> Velocity.getTemplate(new File("d:\\anything\\thetemplate.vm"));
>
>
>
> I do not use Velocity only with Servlet. I use with regular 
> application.

Right - the simple answer is that we made the choice in the 
FileResourceLoader to not allow direct access to resources, but make it 
relative.  I don't think it's worth debating the merits of this as it 
is done :)

However,  I certainly understand your concern about using Velocity 
outside of the servlet environment.  I use it outside of servlets as 
well for a significant amount of use.  To that end, I do a few things, 
such as set "/" as the root for file loading, or use the helper methods 
in VelocityEngine, and just feed it a Reader of my file content...

geir

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> Thanks
> José Luiz Junior
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