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List:       velocity-user
Subject:    Re: velocity.properties
From:       csanders <csanders () hoovers ! com>
Date:       2008-05-02 20:55:38
Message-ID: 481B7FCA.4080109 () hoovers ! com
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Ok, I will try to add this within the next week.

Thanks,
Charlie

Will Glass-Husain wrote:
> Hey-- would love to see the ability to include system properties in
> velocity.properties.  I use that feature in log4j.properties all the time.
>
> (Incidentally, it's always dangerous to credit individual authorship in an
> open source project.  Jason Van Zyl, Jon Stevens and Daniel Rall were the
> original creators, with Geir following soon after.)
>
> Best,
> WILL
>
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Nathan Bubna <nbubna@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:55 AM, csanders <csanders@hoovers.com> wrote:
>>     
>>>> are you deploying to a servlet container?  if so, then the
>>>> FileResourceLoader is not your friend.  you should be using the
>>>> WebappLoader (aka WebappResourceLoader) that is part of the
>>>> VelocityTools project.  It uses servlet context relative paths.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>  Ahh cool, Ill check that out.  I know you're the author so its hard for
>>>       
>> you
>>     
>>> to present an unbiased view  but are there any penalty performances
>>>       
>> moving
>>     
>>> to this loader ?
>>>       
>> oh, and while Claude and i have done some tweaking on the
>> WebappLoader, Geir was the original creator. :)
>>
>>     
>>>
>>>       
>>>> i don't think it would be all that hard to add support for including>
>>>> environmental variables in the properties.  you would pretty much just
>>>> watch for properties either coming in or going out of RuntimeInstance
>>>> for environment variables and do the replacement there.  It would
>>>> probably be easiest to do this in RuntimeInstance#getProperty.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>  Ok thanks.
>>>
>>>  Thanks Nathan,
>>>  Charlei
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Nathan Bubna wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:50 AM, csanders <csanders@hoovers.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Is there anyway we can set relative paths in this file ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> in which file? in velocity.properties?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>  This is the only configuration file out of dozens that doesn't
>>>>>           
>> support
>>     
>>> this and its making deployment a serious pain.
>>>       
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> are you deploying to a servlet container?  if so, then the
>>>> FileResourceLoader is not your friend.  you should be using the
>>>> WebappLoader (aka WebappResourceLoader) that is part of the
>>>> VelocityTools project.  It uses servlet context relative paths.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Or can I use environmental variables in this file ?  That would work
>>>>>           
>>> also.
>>>       
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> sounds like a useful thing to me!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> If not - how much development would it take to get this to work ?
>>>>>           
>>  It
>>     
>>> might be worth it for us to contribute this to Velocity.
>>>       
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> i don't think it would be all that hard to add support for including
>>>> environmental variables in the properties.  you would pretty much just
>>>> watch for properties either coming in or going out of RuntimeInstance
>>>> for environment variables and do the replacement there.  It would
>>>> probably be easiest to do this in RuntimeInstance#getProperty.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Charlie
>>>>>
>>>>>
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