Re: velocity.properties

>  Best,
>  WILL
>
>
>
>  On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Nathan Bubna <nbubna@...> wrote:
>
>  > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:55 AM, csanders <csanders@...> 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@...> 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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