Re: URL Rewriting and Velocity

What I do for Url rewriting directly in my templates is to add a handful of 
helper macros to the VM_global_library.vm (see below) and then ensure I always 
put the Servlet HttpResponse in the Velocity context under the name "response".

So when I need to rewrite an Url I just have to use the functions #Url, 
#QuotedUrl, #Redirect and #QuotedRedirect - see the doc...

The VM_global_library.vm snippet:

##
##      macro:                  Url
##
##      parameters:             $url
##
##      description:    Encodes a link with servlet session information
##
##      prerequisite:   Servlet response required to be placed in the
##                                      context as 'response'.
##
##      html use:               <a href="#Url($link)">My link</a>
##
##      July 2002, martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
##
#macro( Url $url )
$response.encodeURL($url)#end

##
##      macro:                  QuotedUrl
##
##      parameters:             $url
##
##      description:    Encodes a link with servlet session information and
##                                      adds surrounding quotes.
##
##      prerequisite:   Servlet response required to be placed in the
##                                      context as 'response'.
##
##      html use:               <a href=#Url($link)>My link</a>
##
##      July 2002, martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
##
#macro( QuotedUrl $url )
"$response.encodeURL($url)"#end

##
##      macro:                  Redirect
##
##      parameters:             $url
##
##      description:    Encodes a redirect with servlet session information.
##
##      prerequisite:   Servlet response required to be placed in the
##                                      context as 'response'.
##
##      html use:               <a href=#Url($link)>My link</a>
##
##      July 2002, martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
##
#macro( Redirect $url )
$response.encodeRedirectURL($url)#end

##
##      macro:                  QuotedRedirect
##
##      parameters:             $url
##
##      description:    Encodes a redirect with servlet session information and
##                                      adds surrounding quotes.
##
##      prerequisite:   Servlet response required to be placed in the
##                                      context as 'response'.
##
##      html use:               <a href=#Url($link)>My link</a>
##
##      July 2002, martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
##
#macro( QuotedRedirect $url )
"$response.encodeRedirectURL($url)"#end



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On 11/29/2002 at 18:29 Kwirirai wrote:

>Hi
>My question is does Velocity support URL Rewriting or I have to employ URL
>rewriting with my own
>Implementation. I know that with Servlets you can do URL Rewriting while
>printing out to the client. Since velocity
>Does the printing out ,how can URL Rewriting be done using velocity.
>
>kwiri
>
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