Re: simple layout not working

Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.freemarker.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 4:43:02 AM, S Ahmed wrote:

> I'm getting this error:
>
> Error reading imported file WEB-INF/views/layout/master.ftl The
> problematic instruction: ---------- ==> import
> "/WEB-INF/views/layout/master.ftl" as p [on line 1, column 1 in
> home/index.ftl] ---------- Java backtrace for programmers:
> ---------- freemarker.template.TemplateException: Error reading
> imported file WEB-INF/views/layout/master.ftl at
> freemarker.core.LibraryLoad.accept(LibraryLoad.java:122) at
> freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:221) at
> freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92) at
> freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:221) at
> freemarker.core.Environment.process(Environment.java:199) at
> freemarker.template.Template.process(Template.java:259) at
> org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerView.processTemplate(FreeMarkerView.java:366)
> at
> org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerView.doRender(FreeMarkerView.java:283)
> at
> org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerView.renderMergedTemplateModel(FreeMarkerView.java:233)
> at
> org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractTemplateView.renderMergedOutputModel(AbstractTemplateView.java:167)
> at
> org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:262)
> at
> org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1157) at

There should be a "Caused by:" part as well. I suppose it says
java.io.FileNotFoundException.

> My 2 templates are in:
>
> /web-inf/views/layout/master.ftl
> /web-inf/views/home/index.ftl
>
>
> index.ftl:
>
> <#import "/WEB-INF/views/layout/master.ftl" as p>

>From the error message it seems that your template root directory is
/WEB-INF/views. So it should be <#import "/layout/master.ftl" as p>.

> <@p.page "abc">
>     nested goes here
> </@p.page>
>
>
> master.ftl:
>
> <#escape x as x?html>
>
>     <#macro page title>
>     <!DOCTYPE html>
>
>     <html>
>     <head>
>         <meta http-equiv="content-type"
> content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/>
>         <title>${title}</title>
>  ...
> ..
>  <#nested>
> ..
> ..
>
>     </body>
>     </html>
>     </#macro>
> </#escape>
>
>
> Does anything seem wrong here?

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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