public static void Main(System.String[] args)
{
// first, we init the runtime engine. Defaults are fine.
try {
Velocity.Init();
} catch (System.Exception e) {
System.Console.Out.WriteLine("Problem initializing Velocity : " + e);
return;
}
// lets make a Context and put data into it
VelocityContext context = new VelocityContext();
context.Put("name", "Velocity");
context.Put("project", "Jakarta");
// lets render a template
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
try {
Velocity.MergeTemplate("example2.vm", context, writer);
} catch (System.Exception e) {
System.Console.Out.WriteLine("Problem merging template : " + e);
}
System.Console.Out.WriteLine(" template : " + writer.GetStringBuilder().ToString());
// lets dynamically 'create' our template
// and use the evaluate() method to render it
System.String s = "We are using $project $name to render this.";
writer = new StringWriter();
try {
Velocity.Evaluate(context, writer, "mystring", s);
} catch (ParseErrorException pee) {
// thrown if something is wrong with the
// syntax of our template string
System.Console.Out.WriteLine("ParseErrorException : " + pee);
} catch (MethodInvocationException mee) {
// thrown if a method of a reference
// called by the template
// throws an exception. That won't happen here
// as we aren't calling any methods in this
// example, but we have to catch them anyway
System.Console.Out.WriteLine("MethodInvocationException : " + mee);
} catch (System.Exception e) {
System.Console.Out.WriteLine("Exception : " + e);
}
System.Console.Out.WriteLine(" string : " + writer.GetStringBuilder().ToString());
}
public static bool MergeTemplate(string templateName, IContext context, TextWriter writer)
{
return(Velocity.MergeTemplate(templateName, RuntimeSingleton.getString("input.encoding", "ISO-8859-1"), context, writer));
}