Something is wrong and it is very frustrating. I read on velocity's homepage that when I run a webapp then some properties should be set. And I've done that but no matter what I do I keep getting the same error.
This is where I set the props and use velocity
public class ConfirmationMailGenerator implements MailGenerator {
private BasicUser user;
private String htmlTemplate = "HTMLConfirmationMailTemplate.vsl";
private String plainTemplate = "PlainConfirmationMailTemplate.vsl";
public ConfirmationMailGenerator(BasicUser user) {
this.user = user;
}
public StringWriter generateHTML() throws Exception {
Properties props = new Properties();
props.setProperty("resource.loader", "wepapp");
props.setProperty("webapp.resource.loader.class", "org.apache.velocity.tools.view.WebappResourceLoader");
props.setProperty("webapp.resource.loader.path", "/WEB-INF/mailtemplates/");
VelocityEngine engine = new VelocityEngine(props);
VelocityContext context = new VelocityContext();
engine.init();
Map map = createDataModel();
context.put("user", map);
Template template = engine.getTemplate(htmlTemplate);
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
template.merge(context, writer);
return writer;
}
...
}
The files is of course saved in /WEB-INF/mailtemplates/.
If I use this I get this error:
SEVERE: ResourceManager : unable to find resource 'HTMLConfirmationMailTemplate.vsl' in any resource loader.
SEVERE: The log message is null.
Thank you for your time:)
You are using the Webapp resourceloader, which is intended for pages served by the Velocity Tools servlet. (It requires some special initialization to find the root of the servlet context).
I recommend you use the ClasspathResourceLoader, then put the files into WEB-INF/classes, or elsewhere in your classpath. This is really the most straight forward approach.
resource.loader = class
class.resource.loader.class = org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.ClasspathResourceLoader
More info is here: