[VELTOOLS-167] Dealing with missing keys in resource bundle

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0
• Component/s: GenericTools
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mohan Palisetti
• Created: 03/Jul/15 12:48
• Updated: 06/Jul/15 06:17

Description

No exception is thrown when doing a template merge with a non-existent key from the resource bundle.

eg. if the template has ${resource.NON_EXISTENT_KEY}, then we end up with the string

???NON_EXISTENT_KEY???

This has to do with the org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.ResourceTool.Key.toString implementation as shown below:

        public String toString()
        {
            if (this.key == null)
            {
                return "";
            }
            if (!getExists())
            {
                return "???"+this.key+"???";
            }
            return ResourceTool.this.render(this.rawValue, this.args);
        }

Any reason why we can't force a FormatException when running in strict mode?