[Springframework-developer] Velocity problem in 1.0 final

[Darren D. <da...@da...>]

I've just dropped a 1.0 final spring.jar into one of my projects that use=
s
Velocity and it now fails due to a change made in VelocityView (CVS
revision 1.24)

Prior to this version, the velocity context was initialized with:

Context velocityContext =3D new VelocityContext();
VelocityEngineUtils.exposeModelAsContextAttributes(model, velocityContext=
);


now, it's done with:

Context velocityContext =3D new VelocityContext(model);

and the relevant conversion method from VelocityEngineUtils has been remo=
ved.

What this means is any model object with a period (.) in the name is not
altered to a velocity friendly underscore character (_) which
VelocityEngineUtils used to do.

Is there a reason this was done, or is there an alternative conversion
method that I've overlooked?  Velocity can still not handle names with
periods so now any application that potentially adds such keys to the
model map will break (as mine just has!) when Velocity is the view
technology.

Regards,

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Darren Davison
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