Velocity Service

Configuration

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# service.[name].[property]=[value]

services.VelocityService.classname = org.apache.turbine.services.velocity.TurbineVelocityService
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# The location of Velocity configuration file, relative to webapp root
# These properties will override the default properties set by Velocity.
# You should specify the path to the templates directories as well as
# the path to the log file and they should also be relative to webapp root

services.VelocityService.template.extension = vm
services.VelocityService.default.page = VelocityPage
services.VelocityService.default.screen = VelocityScreen
services.VelocityService.default.layout = VelocityECSLayout
services.VelocityService.default.navigation = VelocityNavigation
services.VelocityService.default.error.screen = VelocityErrorScreen
services.VelocityService.default.layout.template = Default.vm

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# Set this to true to catch Velocity Errors and display them in the log file
services.VelocityService.catch.errors = true

services.VelocityService.runtime.log = /logs/velocity.log
#services.VelocityService.input.encoding = UTF-8
services.VelocityService.velocimacro.library = GlobalMacros.vm

services.VelocityService.resource.loader = file
services.VelocityService.file.resource.loader.description = Velocity File Resource Loader
services.VelocityService.file.resource.loader.class = org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.FileResourceLoader
services.VelocityService.file.resource.loader.path = /templates/app
services.VelocityService.file.resource.loader.cache = false
services.VelocityService.file.resource.loader.modificationCheckInterval = 2

services.VelocityService.resource.loader = classpath
services.VelocityService.classpath.resource.loader.description = Velocity Classpath Resource Loader
services.VelocityService.classpath.resource.loader.class = org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.ClasspathResourceLoader

Usage

Properties

  • "services.VelocityService.catch.errors" controls the reporting of Velocity errors to the application (and to to the user). If this is set to "true" (which is the default), errors are caught by Turbine and reported in the turbine.log file at error level. Velocity will get the String "[Turbine caught an Error here. Look into the turbine.log for further information]" as return value (this might cause further errors down the road if you e.g. expect a numerical value or an object as the result of a method), so if you see this message in your screen, follow the instructions.