Velocity template engine example at Friday, April 17, 2009

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I was trying to get Velocity working stand alone the other night and had a bit of trouble with the template locations. Got it working by passing in a file.resource.loader.path property to the init method.

Java code...

public class App
{
  public static void main( String[] args )
  {
   try {
      VelocityEngine ve = new VelocityEngine();      
      Properties properties = new Properties();
      properties.setProperty("file.resource.loader.path", "/home/footech");
      ve.init(properties);   
    
      List myList = new ArrayList();
      myList.add("one");
      myList.add("two");
      myList.add("three");

      VelocityContext context = new VelocityContext();
      context.put("aList", myList);
                  
      Template t = ve.getTemplate("footech.vm");
    
      StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
      t.merge(context, writer);      

      System.out.println(writer.toString());
    
   } catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
   }
  }  
}

Put a footech.vm template in /home/footech.

Template example...

Hello.

#foreach($number in $aList)
The number is $number
#end