vtl

How do i access GET variables as passed in the URI in a VM template? This works only when loading the widget URL: $request.get("parameters").get("fav").get(0) I'm looking for a neat solution that works with friendly URLs. Here's my testing template: <br><br><br> #set($url = $request.attributes.CURRENT_URL) <h2>url: $url</h2> #set($favs = $url.split("fav=")) favs: $favs<br> favs.size(): $favs.size() <br> #if($favs.size() > 1) #set($fav1 = $favs.get(1).split("&").get(0)) fav1: $fav1<br> #else No fav! #end #if($favs.size() > 2) #set($fav2 = $favs.get(2).split("&").get(0)) fav2: $fav2<br> #end

How to throw an user-defined exception from Velocity Template Script (VTL) ? From my velocity script, i need to throw an exception based on a condition, so that the caller can catch the exception and present an useful error messages to the end user. For Example. #if($passwordfield1 != $passwordfield2) throw an exception here #elseif($passwordfield1 == $passwordfield2) do something #end In the above example, if passwordfield1 and passwordfield2 is not matching,an appropriate exception should be thrown and that needs to be propagated to the end-user. Is there any way to achieve this from

We make heavy use of Velocity in our web application. While it is easy to debug the Java side of things and ensure the Velocity Context is populated correctly, it would be extremely valuable to be able to step through the parsing of the VTL on the merge step, set breakpoints, etc. Are there any tools or IDEs/IDE plugins that would make this kind of thing possible with VTL (Velocity Template Language)? I had not found any yet. The closest I can get is to hack a logging framework to print out information that you want. What you do is: create an class with logging method which return boolean