Velocity - RHS of #set statement is null

[michaelfortin]

Hello,
I'm using the spring velocity macros in a page and they were working when I was using the ResourceBundleViewResolver but I needed to switch to the UrlBasedViewResolver so I can use the 'forward:action.do' syntax to forward to new controllers but now I get the errors from velocity. I'm assuming this is because the springMacroRequestContext is not available, is that correct? Am I using the correct attribute, or is there another property I need to set?

my view resolver config look like:

<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
    <property name="suffix">
      <value>.vm</value>
    </property>
    <property name="prefix">
      <value>/</value>
    </property>
    <property name="viewClass">
    <value>org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityToolboxView</value>
    </property>
    <property name="attributes">
      <props>
        <prop key="exposeSpringMacroHelpers">true</prop>
      </props>
    </property>
  </bean>

TIA
Michael Fortin

[michaelfortin]

Just in case someone else came across the same problem, I figured it out on my own. The fallowing is the correct viewResolver to use:

<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityViewResolver">
    <property name="suffix">
      <value>.vm</value>
    </property>
    <property name="prefix">
      <value>/</value>
    </property>
    <property name="exposeSpringMacroHelpers">
      <value>true</value>
    </property>
    <property name="exposeRequestAttributes">
      <value>true</value>
    </property>
    <property name="exposeSessionAttributes">
      <value>true</value>
    </property>
  </bean>

mike