This Example shows you how to use class properties in your velocity template.

Reference Class Properties

     

This Example shows you how to use class properties in your velocity template. 

Steps used in the code given below :
1: Initialize velocity run time engine through method  init().
2: Create object of VelocityContext Class.
3: Use put() method of Class VelocityContext through object 'ctx'.
4: Define variable 'date' to hold the value of java.util.Date Class.
5: With the use of this date variable, we will access the values of day, month and year in .vm file.

 

CallClassMethods.java

package velocity.ClassReference; import java.io.*; import java.util.*; import org.apache.velocity.*; import org.apache.velocity.app.*; public class CallClassMethods {   public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {   Velocity.init();   Template t =  Velocity.getTemplate("./src/velocity/ClassReference/ClassProperties.vm");   VelocityContext ctx = new VelocityContext();   ctx.put("date", new Date());   Writer writer = new StringWriter();   t.merge(ctx, writer);   System.out.println(writer);   } }

ClassMethods.vm

Day: $date.Date Month: $date.Month #set($year=$date.Year+1900) Year: $year

Output :

Day: 23 Month: 7 Year: 2008

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