Spring Framework example source code file (VelocityConfigurer.java)

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The Spring Framework VelocityConfigurer.java source code

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package org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine;
import org.apache.velocity.exception.VelocityException;
import org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.ClasspathResourceLoader;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean;
import org.springframework.context.ResourceLoaderAware;
import org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineFactory;

/**
 * JavaBean to configure Velocity for web usage, via the "configLocation"
 * and/or "velocityProperties" and/or "resourceLoaderPath" bean properties.
 * The simplest way to use this class is to specify just a "resourceLoaderPath";
 * you do not need any further configuration then.
 *
 * <pre class="code">
 * <bean id="velocityConfig" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityConfigurer">
 *   <property name="resourceLoaderPath"><value>/WEB-INF/velocity/</value></property>
 * </bean></pre>
 *
 * This bean must be included in the application context of any application
 * using Spring's {@link VelocityView} for web MVC. It exists purely to configure
 * Velocity; it is not meant to be referenced by application components (just
 * internally by VelocityView). This class implements {@link VelocityConfig}
 * in order to be found by VelocityView without depending on the bean name of
 * this configurer. Each DispatcherServlet may define its own VelocityConfigurer
 * if desired, potentially with different template loader paths.
 *
 * <p>Note that you can also refer to a pre-configured VelocityEngine
 * instance via the "velocityEngine" property, e.g. set up by
 * {@link org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineFactoryBean},
 * This allows to share a VelocityEngine for web and email usage, for example.
 *
 * <p>This configurer registers the "spring.vm" Velocimacro library for web views
 * (contained in this package and thus in <code>spring.jar), which makes
 * all of Spring's default Velocity macros available to the views.
 * This allows for using the Spring-provided macros such as follows:
 *
 * <pre class="code">
 * #springBind("person.age")
 * age is ${status.value}</pre>
 *
 * @author Rod Johnson
 * @author Juergen Hoeller
 * @author Darren Davison
 * @see #setConfigLocation
 * @see #setVelocityProperties
 * @see #setResourceLoaderPath
 * @see #setVelocityEngine
 * @see VelocityView
 */
public class VelocityConfigurer extends VelocityEngineFactory
		implements VelocityConfig, InitializingBean, ResourceLoaderAware {

	/** the name of the resource loader for Spring's bind macros */
	private static final String SPRING_MACRO_RESOURCE_LOADER_NAME = "springMacro";

	/** the key for the class of Spring's bind macro resource loader */
	private static final String SPRING_MACRO_RESOURCE_LOADER_CLASS = "springMacro.resource.loader.class";

	/** the name of Spring's default bind macro library */
	private static final String SPRING_MACRO_LIBRARY = "org/springframework/web/servlet/view/velocity/spring.vm";


	private VelocityEngine velocityEngine;


	/**
	 * Set a pre-configured VelocityEngine to use for the Velocity web
	 * configuration: e.g. a shared one for web and email usage, set up via
	 * {@link org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineFactoryBean}.
	 * <p>Note that the Spring macros will not be enabled automatically in
	 * case of an external VelocityEngine passed in here. Make sure to include
	 * <code>spring.vm in your template loader path in such a scenario
	 * (if there is an actual need to use those macros).
	 * <p>If this is not set, VelocityEngineFactory's properties
	 * (inherited by this class) have to be specified.
	 */
	public void setVelocityEngine(VelocityEngine velocityEngine) {
		this.velocityEngine = velocityEngine;
	}

	/**
	 * Initialize VelocityEngineFactory's VelocityEngine
	 * if not overridden by a pre-configured VelocityEngine.
	 * @see #createVelocityEngine
	 * @see #setVelocityEngine
	 */
	public void afterPropertiesSet() throws IOException, VelocityException {
		if (this.velocityEngine == null) {
			this.velocityEngine = createVelocityEngine();
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Provides a ClasspathResourceLoader in addition to any default or user-defined
	 * loader in order to load the spring Velocity macros from the class path.
	 * @see org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.ClasspathResourceLoader
	 */
	protected void postProcessVelocityEngine(VelocityEngine velocityEngine) {
		velocityEngine.setProperty(
				SPRING_MACRO_RESOURCE_LOADER_CLASS, ClasspathResourceLoader.class.getName());
		velocityEngine.addProperty(
				VelocityEngine.RESOURCE_LOADER, SPRING_MACRO_RESOURCE_LOADER_NAME);
		velocityEngine.addProperty(
				VelocityEngine.VM_LIBRARY, SPRING_MACRO_LIBRARY);
		if (logger.isInfoEnabled()) {
			logger.info("ClasspathResourceLoader with name '" + SPRING_MACRO_RESOURCE_LOADER_NAME +
					"' added to configured VelocityEngine");
		}
	}

	public VelocityEngine getVelocityEngine() {
		return this.velocityEngine;
	}

}