[VELOCITY-144] Allow absolute filename with FileResourceLoader

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3-rc1
• Fix Version/s: 1.5
• Component/s: Engine
• Environment: Operating System: All; Platform: PC
• Bugzilla Id: 17379
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dale Peakall
• Created: 26/Feb/03 00:35
• Updated: 08/Mar/07 00:04
• Resolved: 06/Oct/05 14:16

Description

There is no way of providing an absolute path (e.g. c:\temp\wibble.tmp) to the
FileResourceLoader because it always attempts to use the 2-argument File
constructor (even if the path component is empty).

The following fix resolves this problem:
In FileResourceLoader.findTemplate replace:
File file = new File( path, template );
with
File file = null;

if("".equals(path))
file = new File( template );
else
file = new File ( path, template );

Note this does not introduce any security risks as the FileResourceLoader must
be configured to search the empty ("") path.