How do I get a DateTool into my velocity context.

[Ryan Gardner <ry...@gmail.com>]

This is what I have set up now - quite a big ordeal just to inject a  
dateTool into a header so I can then pull it out in my Velocity  
template to format a date.
	
	.process(
                       new Processor() {
                         public void process(Exchange exchange) throws  
Exception {
                             // set the context up so we can have the  
dateTool in the vm template
                              
exchange.getOut().setHeaders(exchange.getIn().getHeaders());
                             exchange.getOut().setHeader("dateTool",  
new DateTool());
                              
exchange.getOut().setBody(exchange.getIn().getBody());
                         }})

There HAS to be a simpler way to do this... but I can't find an  
example on how to do it... Any tips?

Basically, I just need a way to get an  
org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.DateTool into the VelocityContext.

The easiest way I saw to do this was to throw it into the header of  
the message.
The easiest way I saw to do this was to create an anonymous inner  
class that set the header in the way you see above.

Any tips on an easier way to do this would be appreciated.

Ryan

RE: How do I get a DateTool into my velocity context.

[Claus Ibsen <ci...@silverbullet.dk>]

Hi

I think you can use the setHeader DSL
.setHeader("dateTool").constant(new DateTool()).

In your route and avoid the inner anym processor


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-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Gardner [mailto:ryebrye@gmail.com] 
Sent: 10. september 2008 07:20
To: camel-user@activemq.apache.org
Subject: How do I get a DateTool into my velocity context.

This is what I have set up now - quite a big ordeal just to inject a  
dateTool into a header so I can then pull it out in my Velocity  
template to format a date.
	
	.process(
                       new Processor() {
                         public void process(Exchange exchange) throws  
Exception {
                             // set the context up so we can have the  
dateTool in the vm template
                              
exchange.getOut().setHeaders(exchange.getIn().getHeaders());
                             exchange.getOut().setHeader("dateTool",  
new DateTool());
                              
exchange.getOut().setBody(exchange.getIn().getBody());
                         }})

There HAS to be a simpler way to do this... but I can't find an  
example on how to do it... Any tips?

Basically, I just need a way to get an  
org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.DateTool into the VelocityContext.

The easiest way I saw to do this was to throw it into the header of  
the message.
The easiest way I saw to do this was to create an anonymous inner  
class that set the header in the way you see above.

Any tips on an easier way to do this would be appreciated.

Ryan