I am trying to use Velocity to create an email template sent by mail using the Spring JavaMailSender class. The boot resource that I decided to use to find the Velocity template in my web application is the WebappResourceLoader, which is located in the Velocity tool bank.
However, depending on how I use WebappResourceLoader, I get either NPE when the web application starts, or the template cannot be found.
If I specify the init properties for the Velocity mechanism in my Spring application context, I get NPE. My configuration is as follows:
<bean id="velocityEngine" class="org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineFactoryBean">
<property name="velocityProperties">
<props>
<prop key="resource.loader">webapp</prop>
<prop key="webapp.resource.loader.class">org.apache.velocity.tools.view.WebappResourceLoader</prop>
<prop key="webapp.resource.loader.path">/WEB-INF/velocity/</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
The stack trace that I get when I launch the application:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.WebappResourceLoader.getResourceStream(WebappResourceLoader.java:145)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.ResourceLoader.resourceExists(ResourceLoader.java:224)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManagerImpl.getLoaderForResource(ResourceManagerImpl.java:641)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManagerImpl.getLoaderNameForResource(ResourceManagerImpl.java:624)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.getLoaderNameForResource(RuntimeInstance.java:1464)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.VelocimacroFactory.initVelocimacro(VelocimacroFactory.java:159)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.init(RuntimeInstance.java:261)
at org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.init(VelocityEngine.java:107)
at org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineFactory.createVelocityEngine(VelocityEngineFactory.java:251)
at org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(VelocityEngineFactoryBean.java:57)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1460)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1398)
To fix this, I changed the application context as follows:
<bean id="velocityEngine" class="org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineFactoryBean" />
, , ( /WEB -INF/speed regemail.vm), :
velocityEngine.addProperty("resource.loader", "webapp");
velocityEngine.addProperty("webapp.resource.loader.class", "org.apache.velocity.tools.view.WebappResourceLoader");
velocityEngine.addProperty("webapp.resource.loader.path", "/WEB-INF/velocity/");
velocityEngine.setApplicationAttribute("javax.servlet.ServletContext", "localhost:8080");
, , :
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet default threw exception
org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to find resource 'regmail.vm'
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManagerImpl.loadResource(ResourceManagerImpl.java:483)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManagerImpl.getResource(ResourceManagerImpl.java:354)
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.getTemplate(RuntimeInstance.java:1400)
at org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.mergeTemplate(VelocityEngine.java:370)
at org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.mergeTemplate(VelocityEngine.java:345)
at org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineUtils.mergeTemplate(VelocityEngineUtils.java:58)
at org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineUtils.mergeTemplateIntoString(VelocityEngineUtils.java:122)
at com.mywebapp.web.service.RegistrationServiceImpl$1.prepare(RegistrationServiceImpl.java:60)
at org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl.send(JavaMailSenderImpl.java:353)
at org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl.send(JavaMailSenderImpl.java:345)
at com.mywebapp.web.service.RegistrationServiceImpl.sendRegEmail(RegistrationServiceImpl.java:65)
at com.mywebapp.web.controller.SignUpController.onSubmit(SignUpController.java:97)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
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