Event Handler: Exceptions
import java.io.StringWriter; import java.io.Writer; import org.apache.velocity.Template; import org.apache.velocity.VelocityContext; import org.apache.velocity.app.Velocity; import org.apache.velocity.app.event.EventCartridge; import org.apache.velocity.app.event.MethodExceptionEventHandler; import org.apache.velocity.app.event.NullSetEventHandler; import org.apache.velocity.app.event.ReferenceInsertionEventHandler; import org.apache.velocity.context.Context; public class EventHandler implements ReferenceInsertionEventHandler, NullSetEventHandler, MethodExceptionEventHandler { public EventHandler(Context ctx) { EventCartridge ec = new EventCartridge(); ec.addEventHandler(this); ec.attachToContext(ctx); } public Object referenceInsert(String reference, Object data) { System.out.println("referenceInsert: " + reference + " data: " + data); return data; } public boolean shouldLogOnNullSet(String lhs, String rhs) { System.out.println("shouldLogOnNullSet"); System.out.println("lhs:" + lhs + " rhs:" + rhs); return true; } public Object methodException(Class cls, String method, Exception e) throws Exception { return "An " + e.getClass().getName() + " was thrown by the " + method + " method of the " + cls.getName() + " class [" + e.getMessage() + "]"; } public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { Velocity.init(); Template t = Velocity.getTemplate("./src/eventHandler.vm"); Context ctx = new VelocityContext(); ctx.put("person", "Joe"); ctx.put("exception", new ExceptionGenerator()); EventHandler hdl = new EventHandler(ctx); Writer writer = new StringWriter(); t.merge(ctx, writer); System.out.println(writer); } } import java.util.Random; public class ExceptionGenerator { public String generate() throws Exception { Random rnd = new Random(); int x = rnd.nextInt(5); if (x == 2) { throw new Exception("Unlucky!"); } else { return "No Exception"; } } } ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #set($myNull1 = $validNull) #set($myNull2 = $invalidNull) This is $person $exception.generate() $exception.generate() $exception.generate() $exception.generate()
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