Re: Parsing error... ?#~

[Dan Finkelstein <da...@emind.com>]

Wow, that was indeed the problem -- it had caught me unawares....

Funny enough, our code was originally implemented with the

         velocimacro.library = <library1>,<library2>,<library3>...

construct, but the Velocity singleton limitation forced me to be "creative" 
and I moved to using the #parse construct -- unfortunately, I butted up 
against this unexpected side-effect.   At least now I know... :)

Thanks for all your insights...

Take care,
Dan

At 11:59 PM 7/11/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Dan Finkelstein wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure what to try next so I thought I'd bounce this weirdness off
> > you guys...
>
>Oh no... I hate wierdness.
>
> >
> > Our system goes through a bunch of velocity templates and processes
> > them.  When it gets to one, it generates this error:
> >
> >    7 of 21: C:/projects/gusa/builds/common/b0/templates/Wrapup.html
> > Velocity Parsing error:
> >          Message...Encountered "/" at line 67, column 25.
> > Was expecting one of:
>
>[SNIP]
>
> > so I think the line numbers are off.  Anyway, this file does use a macro,
> > #OutputParagraphs(string), which is stored in a library file and accessed
> > as follows from the first line of the template:
> >
> >         #parse ("build/common/b0/templates/include/preprocessorLibrary.vm")
> >
>
>Ah ha.
>
> > If I paste in the contents of this library into the template, replacing the
> > #parse line, velocity processes the file without an error.  I don't know
> > what the differences are between calling a macro "in-line" vs. through a
> > parsed file...
>
>You can't parse in a VM definition like this.  Why?  Because #parse() is
>a run-time thing, and the binding of VMs in the template happens at
>parse time.  So the VMs have to be registered before parsing the
>template. (It's something I'm working on...).
>
> > The final observation I have is that in our system we have something like a
> > "make", where only changed files are processed by velocity.  When we do a
> > "make all" this error doesn't occur.  It only occurs, it we change the
> > template file (that being one only file needing to process) and then run
> > "make".  It's as thought something has "primed" velocity in the "make all"
> > situation...
>
>This is consistant with the above #parse() problem.
>
>Solution?  Well, looking at it, it seems that the preprocessorLibrary.vm
>isn't local to that template.  So you can simply have velocity read it
>and register the VMs at startup using the configuration key
>
>velocimacro.library = <library1>,<library2>,<library3>...
>
>in your velocity.properties (or however you configure the runtime...)
>
>(so yes, you can specify multiple libraries to be read in...)
>
>Does that help?
>
>geir
>
>--
>Geir Magnusson Jr.                           geirm@optonline.net
>System and Software Consulting
>Developing for the web?  See http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/
>You have a genius for suggesting things I've come a cropper with!

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