Re: 2 macros with the same name allowed?

No - we don't have name overloading with VMs.

On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 07:32 PM, Rodney Schneider wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a really long macro called displayAllMessages which is used to
> display nicely formatted messages to the user of my web application.
> The macro takes two arguments; the messages to display and the color to
> display them...
>
> #macro (displayAllMessages $data $color)
> <snip>
> #end
>
> I want to make the default color red, so I have created another macro
> that calls the long macro...
>
> #macro (displayAllMessages $data)
>   #displayAllMessages($data, "red")
> #end
>
> However, when I call the macro from one of my templates like so...
>
> #displayAllMessages($data, "black")
>
> ... I get the attached error messages from Velocity.
>
> Am I allowed to have two macros with the same name call each other in
> Velocity?  BTW, I'm using Velocity 1.2.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Rodney
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Wed Nov 27 18:05:10 GMT+11:00 2002  [error] Parser Exception:
> screens/Upload.vm : org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.ParseException:
> Encountered "," at line 84, column 34.
> Was expecting one of:
>     "[" ...
>     <RPAREN> ...
>     <WHITESPACE> ...
>     <STRING_LITERAL> ...
>     "true" ...
>     "false" ...
>     <NUMBER_LITERAL> ...
>     <WORD> ...
>     <IDENTIFIER> ...
>     "{" ...
>     "}" ...
>     <DOT> ...
>
> Wed Nov 27 18:05:10 GMT+11:00 2002  [error]
> ResourceManager.getResource() parse exception:
> org.apache.velocity.exception.ParseErrorException: Encountered "," at
> line 84, column 34.
> Was expecting one of:
>     "[" ...
>     <RPAREN> ...
>     <WHITESPACE> ...
>     <STRING_LITERAL> ...
>     "true" ...
>     "false" ...
>     <NUMBER_LITERAL> ...
>     <WORD> ...
>     <IDENTIFIER> ...
>     "{" ...
>     "}" ...
>     <DOT> ...
>
> Wed Nov 27 18:05:10 GMT+11:00 2002  [error] VM #displayAllMessages:
> error : too few arguments to macro. Wanted 2 got 1  -->
>
> org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.FileResourceLoader
> Wed Nov 27 18:05:10 GMT+11:00 2002  [error] VM error :
> displayAllMessages. Null AST
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>
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