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Posted to user@velocity.apache.org by Katrin Möller <ka...@gmail.com> on 2005/06/01 09:14:23 UTC

Re: parse custom markers

Hi,

nope,
context.put("KEY$","value");
isn't working (it's not identifying the whole key):

and I can't swap to
sometext $KEY sometext 
because of other requirements of the project.

On 5/31/05, Shinobu Kawai <sh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Katrin,
> 
> > I'm trying to parse a given template containing custom markers.
> > Sample template:
> > "sometext $KEY$ sometext"
> > The easyiest way would be to parse it with a VelocityContext
> > containing KEY as a marker:
> > context.put("KEY","value");
> > The parsed String is then "sometext value$ sometext".
> > This is nasty because first, the remaining "$" must be replaced
> > manually and second, even an incomplete marker ($KEY) would be parsed.
> >
> > How can I find a smarter workaround for this?
> 
> What's stopping you from just doing this?
> sometext $KEY sometext
> 
> Best regards,
> -- Shinobu
> 
> --
> Shinobu Kawai <sh...@gmail.com>
> 
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Re: parse custom markers

Posted by Katrin Möller <ka...@gmail.com>.
Hi Shinobu,

thanks for your advice! I don't know by now which way I will choose
but your suggestions sound good.

Best regards,
Katrin


On 6/3/05, Shinobu Kawai <sh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Katrin,
> 
> > nope,
> > context.put("KEY$","value");
> > isn't working (it's not identifying the whole key):
> >
> > and I can't swap to
> > sometext $KEY sometext
> > because of other requirements of the project.
> 
> I can think of two solutions.
> 
> 1. Don't use Velocity.
> Looks like you're not dealing with a Velocity template.  You might be
> better off using other technologies, such as regular expressions.
>   http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/index.html
>   http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/package-summary.html
> 
> 2. Hack Velocity.
> You'll have to change the parser behaviour to achieve what you want.
> Take a look at this article for some starter information:
>   http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-velocity/HackingVelocity
> 
> Best regards,
> -- Shinobu
> 
> --
> Shinobu Kawai <sh...@gmail.com>
> 
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Re: parse custom markers

Posted by Shinobu Kawai <sh...@gmail.com>.
Hi Katrin,

> nope,
> context.put("KEY$","value");
> isn't working (it's not identifying the whole key):
> 
> and I can't swap to
> sometext $KEY sometext
> because of other requirements of the project.

I can think of two solutions.

1. Don't use Velocity.
Looks like you're not dealing with a Velocity template.  You might be
better off using other technologies, such as regular expressions.
  http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/index.html
  http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/package-summary.html

2. Hack Velocity.
You'll have to change the parser behaviour to achieve what you want. 
Take a look at this article for some starter information:
  http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-velocity/HackingVelocity

Best regards,
-- Shinobu

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Shinobu Kawai <sh...@gmail.com>

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