I'm new to Spring Boot, and I'm having major trouble with this. There's a short list of Velocity-related Spring Boot properties I can set in application.properties, and those are working fine. But there's a huge number of Velocity properties that I can't configure that way.
I found this question, that seems to address what I need, but it isn't working for me. When I use breakpoints within Spring Boot during program start-up, I can see the "spring.velocity.properties.*" key/value pairs being read and loaded by Spring Boot correctly--they just don't seem to affect anything. No matter what value I set them to, the Velocity run-time behavior uses the default anyway.
What am I missing?
EDIT:
pom.xml
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>docuvore</groupId>
<artifactId>docuvore-server</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.3.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<properties>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- Core Spring Boot -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- Tomcat and Spring Web MVC -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring Security
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
-->
<!-- Spring Data and MongoDB -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- Apache Velocity -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-velocity</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- Project Lombok -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<version>1.16.2</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<!-- Additional lines to be added here... -->
<!-- (you don't need this if you are using a .RELEASE version) -->
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>spring-snapshots</id>
<url>http://repo.spring.io/snapshot</url>
<snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>spring-milestones</id>
<url>http://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>spring-snapshots</id>
<url>http://repo.spring.io/snapshot</url>
</pluginRepository>
<pluginRepository>
<id>spring-milestones</id>
<url>http://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
</project>
application.properties
logging.path=/logs
#spring.velocity.resourceLoaderPath = /templates/
#spring.velocity.checkTemplateLocation=false
spring.velocity.properties.template.provide.scope.control = true
spring.velocity.properties.directive.parse.max.depth = 9
spring.velocity.properties.runtime.log = C:/logs/velocity.log
Application.java
package com.github.docuvore.prototype;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@ComponentScan
public class Application {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
}
}
ExampleVelocityController.java
package com.github.docuvore.prototype.examples;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.velocity.Template;
import org.apache.velocity.VelocityContext;
import org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
@RestController
public class ExampleVelocityController {
@RequestMapping("/exampleVelocity")
String home() {
String result = null;
VelocityEngine velocity = new VelocityEngine();
velocity.init();
Template template = velocity.getTemplate("src/main/resources/templates/general/htmlElement.vm");
VelocityContext context = new VelocityContext();
context.put("title", "Apache Velocity");
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
template.merge(context, writer);
result = writer.toString();
return result;
}
}
htmlElement.vm
<html>
#parse ("src/main/resources/templates/general/bodyElement.vm")
</html>
bodyElement.vm
<body>
#parse ("src/main/resources/templates/general/bodyElement.vm")
</body>
Velocity support has been removed as of Spring Framework 5 and therefore our support as well (even deprecated in earlier version).
Velocity is a template engine from the Apache Software Foundation that can work with normal text files, SQL, XML, Java code and many other types. In this article we're going to focus on utilizing Velocity with a typical Spring MVC web application.
3.2 Create a Velocity Template Writer Initialize the Velocity engine. Read the template. Put the data model in a context object. Merge the template with context data and render the view.
You should put your breakpoint at VelocityAutoConfiguration to ensure that Velocity is used.
Take a look at spring-boot-sample-velocity. Check the dependencies.
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