Re: Can I get the name of the template from inside the template?

Mike,

What about calling #parse and other (?) types of includes? Same thing with m=
acros which call other macros etc. Velocity must already know what=E2=80=99s=
 going on. Can=E2=80=99t the template get access to that?

-chris

> On May 3, 2023, at 17:30, Mike Kienenberger <[email protected]> wrote:
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> =EF=BB=BFRather than trying to get the internal name, you'd probably be be=
tter off
> injecting the name yourself.  You normally have access to the name of the
> template around the same time that you set up the context.
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>> On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 11:42=E2=80=AFAM Christopher Schultz <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> All,
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>> I'd like too be able to get access to the name of the template currently
>> being rendered. It looks like that information should be in the
>> VelocityContext being used, but I'm having trouble getting a reference
>> to that.
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>> This is in a webapp situation, and I'm using velocity-tools so I tried
>> the ContextTool which will give me a ChainedContext which implements the
>> Context interface but I'm not sure where to go from there. For example,
>> I don't see a way to walk my way up the chain to the
>> most-parent-context, or really anything that would give me access to
>> e.g. getCurrentTemplateName.
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>> Is there a "standard" way to do this?
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>> I'm using Velocity 1.7 at this point (yeah, I know). I'm perfectly happy
>> to hack it a little bit and I already have a custom
>> VelocityLayoutServlet with a custom mergeTemplate method, so ther is an
>> opportunity there to inject some instrumentation.
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>> Thanks,
>> -chris
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