Using different velocity.properties depending on the environment

[Paul Wellner Bou <pw...@gmail.com>]

Good morning,

is it possible to point to the velocity.properties file using
environment variables?

we have a velocity.properties in our classpath, this should be used as
default and in production environments. Then, we have another one,
named, for example velocity-dev.properties (or in another directory,
like dev/velocity.properties), which has different settings for
logging, caching and refreshing as the production file.

Is it possible to start the container or the war file with something
like -Dorg.apache.velocity.properties=velocity-dev.properties, similar
as it is done with the log4j configuration file?

Thanks and regards
Paul.

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Re: Using different velocity.properties depending on the environment

[Nathan Bubna <nb...@gmail.com>]

VelocityView (from VelocityTools) has abilities like this, but the
core engine does not. But, you can always put the check into your own
code where you create your VelocityEngine:

String propsFilePath = System.getProperty("org.apache.velocity.properties");
VelocityEngine engine;
if (propsFilePath == null) {
    engine = new VelocityEngine();
} else {
    engine = new VelocityEngine(propsFilePath);
}

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Paul Wellner Bou <pw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> is it possible to point to the velocity.properties file using
> environment variables?
>
> we have a velocity.properties in our classpath, this should be used as
> default and in production environments. Then, we have another one,
> named, for example velocity-dev.properties (or in another directory,
> like dev/velocity.properties), which has different settings for
> logging, caching and refreshing as the production file.
>
> Is it possible to start the container or the war file with something
> like -Dorg.apache.velocity.properties=velocity-dev.properties, similar
> as it is done with the log4j configuration file?
>
> Thanks and regards
> Paul.
>
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