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Animesh Agrawal
Animesh Agrawal

Reputation: 161

Why Velocity is not replacing values?

My template String is as following and i want to replace the value of $java.lang.Object.property

     String tempString = "hi test message for velocity $java.lang.Object.property";

here i am passing context map as follow

    VelocityContext context = new VelocityContext();
    context.put("java.lang.Object.property", "1");
    StringWriter message = new StringWriter();
    mVelocityEngine.evaluate( context, message, "LOG", tempString);

why velocity engine is not able to replace the value of java.lang.Object.property from the template?

Please Help. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1189

Answers (1)

lance-java
lance-java

Reputation: 28101

Short Answer:

Don't use . in your context names

Long Answer:

Velocity has special treatment for . and I think it's actually trying to call

context.get("java").getLang().getObject().getProperty()

I'm not 100% sure of the syntax but perhaps you could try $['java.lang.Object.property'] or similar... probably best to check the velocity docs for how to access context variables via string/map lookup.

Another option is to add a map to the context and access via:

$map['java.lang.Object.property']

Upvotes: 3

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