Small spring/velocity config problem

[mwaschkowski]

Hi there,

I'm new to Spring and Velocity and having a config issue - I think that I may be missing some part of the configuration. If I do a manual merge of a template and a velocity context, everything works fine. But when I try to do this in a web app with a view resolver, its like the spring is ignoring the model, and it will show an error like:

"WARN - CommonsLoggingLogSystem.logVelocityMessage(45) | org.apache.velocity.runt
ime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = login.vm [line 6,column 1] : ${loginError} is not a valid reference."

Here is a snippet from my controller:

public ModelAndView gotoLoginPage(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException
{
logger.info("gotoLoginPage request");
ModelAndView mv;
Map<Object, Object> model = new HashMap<Object, Object>();
model.put("loginError", "false");
mv = new ModelAndView("login", "model", model);
return mv;
}

Here is my servlet config file snippet:
<bean id="velocityConfig"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.veloci ty.VelocityConfigurer">
<property name="resourceLoaderPath"><value>/WEB-INF/velocity/</value></property>
</bean>

<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.veloci ty.VelocityViewResolver">
<property name="cache"><value>false</value></property>
<property name="prefix"><value></value></property>
<property name="suffix"><value>.vm</value></property>
</bean>

Any hints/suggestions MUCH appreciated!

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[irbouho]

I think you should use:

mv = new ModelAndView("login", model);

HTH

[mwaschkowski]

Thanks man, that did it. Ugh, and I stared that in the face for 1 1/2 hours last night. I had it previously setup for JSTL and the three parameter method worked fine.

THANK AGAIN!

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[mwaschkowski]

Ugh, just to followup. I was looking at the images project in the samples folder of spring and there the 3 param method is used, successfully:

return new ModelAndView("imageList", "images", this.imageDatabase.getImages());

The 3 params method will work properly, but I was incorrectly referencing the variable. Instead of:

${loginError}

I should have used:
${model.loginError}

Blech, my mistake. OK, time to go have a cup of Java and put my head on straight

Cheers,

Mark