// Unit tests for the Velocity 101 code. Note that the second test is
// actually a test to confirm that the function returns a failure
// correctly when the Velocity template file is not found.
//
// Be sure to get the test.vm file that goes with these unit tests.
// This is a required file for the unit tests in "Velocity 101 Unit Tests".
// Put it into a file and make sure that the filename is passed into the unit
// test above as a System property.
// actually a test to confirm that the function returns a failure
// correctly when the Velocity template file is not found.
//
// Be sure to get the test.vm file that goes with these unit tests.
package com.johnmunsch.util; import org.apache.velocity.VelocityContext; import junit.framework.TestCase; public class BoilerplateTest extends TestCase { private VelocityContext context = null; private String testTemplate = null; protected void setUp() throws Exception { context = new VelocityContext(); testTemplate = System.getProperty("testTemplate"); } /** * A very basic test to see if we can get a word inserted into a template * with the Boilerplate class. * @throws Exception */ public void testApply() throws Exception { context.put("foo", "Velocity"); String output = Boilerplate.apply(context, testTemplate); assertEquals(output, "<html><body>Hello Velocity World!</body><html>"); } /** * Same sort of test as above except this time we specify a bogus name for * the template file and we expect to get an exception. The failure occurs * only if we don't have an exception thrown. */ public void testApply2() { context.put("foo", "Velocity"); try { Boilerplate.apply(context, "heyheypaula.vm"); fail(); } catch (Exception e) { // We expect an exception. Failure is when we don't see one. } } }
// This is a required file for the unit tests in "Velocity 101 Unit Tests".
// Put it into a file and make sure that the filename is passed into the unit
// test above as a System property.
<html><body>Hello $foo World!</body><html>
It would be however much better if it wouldn't use the System property.
Also your snippet would look good in the official Velocity documentation.