I want to use VelocityTool's GenericTools for some standard formatting in a standalone app. e.g. have something like this in my Velocity template to use the GenericTools' NumberTool formatter:
Total: $numberTool.format("#0.00", $totalPnL)
How do I associate the above "$numberTool" with the GenericTool NumberTool. Here's my Velocity code:
Velocity.init();
VelocityContext velocityContext = new VelocityContext();
Template template = Velocity.getTemplate("example.vm");
velocityContext.put("totalPnL", 100);
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
template.merge(velocityContext, sw);
Now I know I can do this to get it to work:
velocityContext.put("numberTool", new NumberTool());
But is that how I need to add all the GenericTools to my app? Manually and one at a time (e.g. another line for DateTool ... etc)? Isn't there a way to make all the GenericTools exposed to my template with out this? I know there's a "tools.xml" that comes with VelocityTools that has the GenericTools defined. Can I just add that to my app to expose all the tools? If so, how?
thanks, David