org.sakaiproject.vm
Class VelocityServlet

java.lang.Object
  javax.servlet.GenericServlet
      javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet
          org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet
              org.sakaiproject.vm.VelocityServlet

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, javax.servlet.Servlet, javax.servlet.ServletConfig

public class VelocityServlet
extends org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet

Responds with the expansion of a Velocity Template. The template and context references are specified in the request.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet

CONTENT_TYPE, DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE, DEFAULT_OUTPUT_ENCODING, DEFAULT_PROPERTIES_PATH, DEFAULT_TOOLBOX_PATH, DEFAULT_TOOLS_PROPERTIES, INIT_PROPS_KEY, SERVLET_CONTEXT_KEY, TOOLBOX_KEY, toolboxManager

Constructor Summary

VelocityServlet()

Method Summary

protected String	escapeVmName(String name) Change any characters that Velocity doesn't like in the name to '_' to make a valid Velocity name
org.apache.velocity.Template	handleRequest(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response, org.apache.velocity.context.Context ctx) main routine to handle a request.
protected org.apache.commons.collections.ExtendedProperties	loadConfiguration(javax.servlet.ServletConfig config) Called by the VelocityServlet init().

Methods inherited from class org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet

createContext, doGet, doPost, doRequest, error, fillContext, findInitParameter, getResponseWriter, getTemplate, getTemplate, getTemplate, getTemplate, getVelocityEngine, getVelocityProperty, init, initToolbox, initVelocity, mergeTemplate, performMerge, requestCleanup, setContentType, setVelocityEngine

Methods inherited from class javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet

doDelete, doHead, doOptions, doPut, doTrace, getLastModified, service, service

Methods inherited from class javax.servlet.GenericServlet

destroy, getInitParameter, getInitParameterNames, getServletConfig, getServletContext, getServletInfo, getServletName, init, log, log

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

VelocityServlet

public VelocityServlet()

Method Detail

loadConfiguration

protected org.apache.commons.collections.ExtendedProperties loadConfiguration(javax.servlet.ServletConfig config)
                                                                       throws IOException,
                                                                              FileNotFoundException

Called by the VelocityServlet init(). We want to set a set of properties so that templates will be found in the webapp root. This makes this easier to work with as an example, so a new user doesn't have to worry about config issues when first figuring things out

Overrides:

loadConfiguration in class org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet

Throws:

IOException

FileNotFoundException

handleRequest

public org.apache.velocity.Template handleRequest(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
                                                  javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response,
                                                  org.apache.velocity.context.Context ctx)

main routine to handle a request. Called by VelocityServlet, your responsibility as programmer is to simply return a valid Template

Overrides:

handleRequest in class org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet

Parameters:

ctx - a Velocity Context object to be filled with data. Will be used for rendering this template

Returns:

Template to be used for request

escapeVmName

protected String escapeVmName(String name)

Change any characters that Velocity doesn't like in the name to '_' to make a valid Velocity name

Parameters:

name - The name to convert.

Returns:

The name converted to a valid Velocity name.