Thanks for the pointer.
I will look into this.
-Arul
On Feb 12, 2010, at 8:56 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>
> On Feb 12, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Arul Dhesiaseelan wrote:
>
>> Thanks Paul for the example.
>>
>> I believe it would be a similar approach to implement a VelocityViewProcessor, which uses Velocity to apply templates to a HTML file, right?
>>
>
> Yes. I did find the following from the Atlassian folks:
>
> http://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-rest/1.1.0.beta3/atlassian-rest-module/xref/
>
> Not sure if that directly helps or not, but it shows such integration is possible :-)
>
> Paul.
>
>> I started working on the VelocityViewProcessor, which basically does what VelocityViewServlet does for the most part. I will see if I can make this work. I will keep you posted.
>>
>> -Arul
>> On Feb 12, 2010, at 7:32 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:18 PM, Arul Dhesiaseelan wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am using velocity. I would like to get rid of the Velocity servlet and use the template processor instead.
>>>>
>>>> I hope this is possible.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, it is possible. You can easily write a template processor that simply spits out the contents of a resource:
>>>
>>> public class HTMLViewProcessor implements ViewProcessor<URL> {
>>>
>>> public URL resolve(String path) {
>>> Classloader c = .... // use thread context class loader
>>> // Perhaps check if path is an HTML file
>>> return c.getResource(path);
>>>
>>> // Or if you want things picked up from the Web area inject ServletContext
>>> // ServletContext sc = ...
>>> // return sc.getResource(path); // catch MalformedURLException
>>> }
>>>
>>> public void writeTo(URL resource, Viewable viewable, OutputStream out) throws IOException {
>>> ReaderWriter.writeTo(resource.openStream(), out);
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> This has the advantage that it will also work with templates located according to the rules of Jersey MVC.
>>>
>>> Note that ViewProcessor was introduced as the replacement for TemplateProcessor in Jersey 1.1.5.
>>>
>>> I think i will change Viewable such that you can do:
>>>
>>> public Viewable getHomePage() {
>>> return new Viewable("/home.html");
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> However, as Jan says you can also place stuff directly to be served by the servlet container if you so wish.
>>>
>>> Paul.
>>>
>>>> On Feb 11, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Jan Algermissen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 11, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Arul Dhesiaseelan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it possible to serve static content from a resource?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would like to render HTML from a resource method using explicit MVC, something like:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> @Path("/")
>>>>>> public class RootResource {
>>>>>>
>>>>>> @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_HTML)
>>>>>> @GET
>>>>>> public Viewable getHomePage() {
>>>>>> return new Viewable("/home.html", null);
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Why don't you put that HTML file in a static loocation of your WAR?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> }
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would this work?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>> Arul
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>