Including templates from classpath with Apache Velocity

Question

I'm getting a ResourceNotFound exception with Velocity trying to use the #parse directive (and getting the same thing with #include). I know that my ClassPathResourceLoader is configured correctly, because if I remove the #parse directive, the templates render fine. The template that I'm trying to include is in the same jar file as the template that's rendering correctly, so it's not a location issue, either.

I know from the Velocity docs that templates must be in TEMPLATE_ROOT and that you can also register both a FileResourceLoader and a ClasspathResourceLoader. I've tried both to no avail.

I find it hard to believe that you cannot use #include or #parse with the ClasspathResourceLoader, but I've tried everything I can think of. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Ok, I got it working. Even though the other template files being included in the #parse directive were in the same directory as the template containing the #parse directive, I needed to add the path (relative to the root of the jar file) to them.

Answer 2

alternatively, you can add the following to your velocity.properties to enable Relative Paths:

eventhandler.include.class = org.apache.velocity.app.event.implement.IncludeRelativePath