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>