Velocity Path not found

[Justin Howard]

Hi All,

I have trying to make this work for a very long time. I have my templates in WEB-INF/templates. I am just trying to use it for email body generation.

I have this in the web.xml:

    
<servlet>
		<display-name>MailAction</display-name>
		<servlet-name>MailAction</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>com.aexp.freelancerdb.actions.MailAction</servlet-class>
		<init-param>
            <param-name>properties</param-name>
            <param-value>/WEB-INF/velocity.properties</param-value>
        </init-param>
		
	</servlet>

This is my servlet:

    
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response){
		
		try{
			
			//Get all the data from the request 
			Velocity.init();
	        Template t = Velocity.getTemplate(Constants.TEMPLATES+"helloworld.vm");

	        VelocityContext ctx = new VelocityContext();
	        //Iterate thru the hashmap put key value
	        ctx.put("name", "World");
	        Writer writer = new StringWriter();
	        t.merge(ctx, writer);
                logger.debug(writer.toString());
	        
		   
		}
		
		catch(Exception e){
			
			logger.debug("####################################");
		      logger.debug(">>> Error in !");
		      logger.debug("Exception: " + e.getMessage());
		      logger.debug("Exception: " + Utils.getStackTrace(e));
		      logger.debug("####################################");
		}
	}

This is in my velocity.properties

   
resource.loader = file
file.resource.loader.class = org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.FileResourceLoader
file.resource.loader.path = /WEB-INF/templates
file.resource.loader.cache = true
file.resource.loader.modificationCheckInterval = 2
 

When I execute it throws an exception
Exception: org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to find resource '/appname/WEB-INF/templates/helloworld.vm'

Thanks

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Justin,

I assume you're using Tomcat? If so then you can allow listDirectory and use your web browser to navigate to that file to make sure it's actually there. Also you need to check how the path lookups are occuring, are they relative to your context root? Absolute? Something else...?

[Justin Howard]

Thank you for the reply. Yes i am using Tomcat 6.
The templates are in the path /WEB-INF/templates. But the WEB-INF folder does not come up in the directory listing.
I am using the context-root to access the file.

Template t = Velocity.getTemplate("/appname/WEB-INF/templates/helloworld.vm");

Thanks.