Re: velocity.properties

> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:50 AM, csanders <csanders@...> wrote:
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>> Is there anyway we can set relative paths in this file ?
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> in which file? in velocity.properties?
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>>  This is the only configuration file out of dozens that doesn't support this and its making deployment a serious pain.
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> 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.
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>> Or can I use environmental variables in this file ?  That would work also.
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> sounds like a useful thing to me!
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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>> Thanks,
>> Charlie
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