spring 3.0 Velocity integration failing to locate template.

[vijaymohanp]

When i am trying to get the template for mail messages am getting following exception -

Apr 25, 2012 7:53:53 PM org.springframework.ui.velocity.CommonsLoggingLogS ystem logVelocityMessage
SEVERE: ResourceManager : unable to find resource 'facebook-user-published-list.vm' in any resource loader.
org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundExce ption: Unable to find resource 'facebook-user-published-list.vm'
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManag erImpl.loadResource(ResourceManagerImpl.java:483)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManag erImpl.getResource(ResourceManagerImpl.java:354)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.getTem plate(RuntimeInstance.java:1400)
at org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.mergeTempla te(VelocityEngine.java:370)

I am giving my application context configuration and velocity.properties file below, let me know am doing something wrong here.

APP CONTEXT CONF:

<bean id="velocityEngine"
		class="org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineFactoryBean">
	<property name="configLocation" value="/WEB-INF/conf/velocity.properties"/>
</bean>

velocity.properties file:

resource.loader = file

file.resource.loader.description = Velocity File Resource Loader
file.resource.loader.class = org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.FileResourceLoader
file.resource.loader.path = /WEB-INF/vm-templates/alert/
#file.resource.loader.path = /WEB-INF/vm-templates/alert/, /WEB-INF/vm-templates/mail/digest/, /WEB-INF/vm-templates/mail/direct/
file.resource.loader.cache = false
file.resource.loader.modificationCheckInterval = 0

As per velocity specification we can give multiple directories as well in the "file.resource.loader.path" section.

https://velocity.apache.org/engine/r...rationexamples

[Grzegorz Grzybek]

Hi

You can use org.springframework.ui.velocity.SpringResourceLoad er as a Velocity resource loader. It will help you load templates from WEB-INF. org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.FileRe sourceLoader loads files and tries to resolve /WEB-INF folder based on current path, which (in Tomcat) may be e.g., /var/local/tomcat/bin.

regards
Grzegorz Grzybek

[vijaymohanp]

That is throwing some different autowiring exceptions. I will try to fix those ..

If i configure like below its works fine,

<bean id="velocityEngine" class="org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEng ineFactoryBean">
<property name="resourceLoaderPath" value="/WEB-INF/vm-templates/alert/"/>
</bean>

but i need to specify multiple dirs, that is not working that is the reason am trying the other approach..

[Grzegorz Grzybek]

Hi

If you look at the source of org.springframework.ui.velocity.SpringResourceLoad er.init(ExtendedProperties), you'll see this line:

this.resourceLoaderPaths = StringUtils.commaDelimitedListToStringArray(resourceLoaderPath);

So you can use comma separated list as a value of resourceLoaderPath property.

regards
Grzegorz Grzybek

[vijaymohanp]

Perfect its worked fine!

Thanks a lot Grzegorz!