Documentation vs. code issue

[Tuomas Rinta <tu...@web-effect.net>]

Hi all,

I decided to pick Velocity for a project I am doing and ran into a small 
issue with the Javadoc. When using the code example from the Javadoc of 
org.apache.velocity.Template I get an NullPointerException when 
executing the code, the code is:

  Template template = Velocity.getTemplate("test.vm");
  Context context = new VelocityContext();
  template.merge(context, writer);

(Copied directly from the Javadoc, just omitting the context.put-methods)

After some source-browsing, I noticed that when the Template is loaded 
via Velocity.getTemplate, the ResourceManager-instance used by the 
RuntimeSingleton-class is never initialized, causing the 
NullPointerException. I quickly tried to call .init() on the 
RuntimeSingleton in org.apache.velocity.app.Velocity and it fixed the 
problem. I am using the latest stable version for the website (1.4) and 
the org/apache/velocity/app/Velocity.java-file has the following CVS 
version id:

$Id: Velocity.java, v1.30.4.1 2004/03/03 23:22:53 geirm Exp $

Here's the World's Smallest Diff(tm) that fixes the problem in 
Velocity.java:

trinta@takeshi app $ diff Velocity.java Velocity.java.fix
468a469
 >       RuntimeSingleton.init();

I don't know if this has been reported yet but couldn't find any 
reference to it with Google. If this is a) a known issue b) the wrong 
list c) My Own Fault Cause I Don't Know What I'm Doing(tm), just ignore 
this message ;)

Cheers,
Tuomas Rinta

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Re: Documentation vs. code issue

[Tuomas Rinta <tu...@web-effect.net>]

Tuomas Rinta wrote:
> I don't know if this has been reported yet but couldn't find any 
> reference to it with Google. If this is a) a known issue b) the wrong 
> list c) My Own Fault Cause I Don't Know What I'm Doing(tm), just ignore 
> this message ;)

And I _did_ mean to send this to the velocity-dev-list... Sorry ;)

Cheers,
Tuomas Rinta

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