General-purpose text-importing view tool for templates.

<tool>
  <key>import</key>
  <scope>request</scope>
  <class>org.apache.velocity.tools.view.tools.ImportTool</class>
</tool>

Method Overview

read()

Returns the supplied URL rendered as a String.

See Also

The Javadoc for more info.

Returns the supplied URL rendered as a String.

String read(String url)

Parameters

url

The URL to import.

Returns

The supplied URL rendered as a String.

This method takes an arbitrary URL or URI and renders it as a String. This tool can also be used to import local .vm resources without sharing the current velocity-context (as opposed to the #parse directive).

$import.read("http://velocity.apache.org/tools/devel/")
$import.read("/wookie.jsp")