How to catch an InvalidReference error in NVelocity

Question

I am using the codeplex NVelocity library on .net and I want to catch an error when I execute the Evalute method on the VelocityEngine instance and one of the parameters in the template text was not found.

How can i get this?

I found the IInvalidReferenceEventHandler interface in the NVelocity.App.Event namespace, but I did not find any information on how to use it. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I have found a solution.

I created an EventHandler class:

public class NVelocityEventHandler : IInvalidReferenceEventHandler, IMethodExceptionEventHandler
{
        #region IInvalidReferenceEventHandler Members

        public object InvalidGetMethod(NVelocity.Context.IContext context, string reference, object object_Renamed, string property, NVelocity.Util.Introspection.Info info)
        {
            return "InvalidGetMethod:" + reference;
        }

        public object InvalidMethod(NVelocity.Context.IContext context, string reference, object object_Renamed, string method, NVelocity.Util.Introspection.Info info)
        {
            return "InvalidMethod:" + reference;
        }

        public bool InvalidSetMethod(NVelocity.Context.IContext context, string leftreference, string rightreference, NVelocity.Util.Introspection.Info info)
        {
            return true;
        }

        #endregion

        #region IMethodExceptionEventHandler Members

        object IMethodExceptionEventHandler.MethodException(Type claz, string method, Exception e)
        {
            return "MethodException:" + method;
        }

        #endregion 
}

Then I use it in the following code:

StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
NVelocity.App.VelocityEngine eng = new NVelocity.App.VelocityEngine();
try
{
    NVelocityEventHandler te = new NVelocityEventHandler();
    EventCartridge ec = new EventCartridge();
    ec.AddEventHandler(te);
    VelocityContext vc = new VelocityContext((IDictionary)parameters);
    ec.AttachToContext(vc);
    eng.Evaluate(vc, writer, "templatestring", template);
}
catch (ParseErrorException pe)
{
    return pe.Message;
}
catch (MethodInvocationException mi)
{
    return mi.Message;
}