VelocityUtils.getRenderedTemplate() returns empty String after update to Confluence 7.19.17

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Hello,

after updating Confluence from 7.19.16 to 7.19.17 VelocityUtils.getRenderedTemplate() returns empty String .
This means my macros are just an empty string.
The example below shows a quick fix:

@Scanned
public class MyLink extends ... {
    ...

    public String execute(Map<String, String> map, String s, 
               ConversionContext conversionContext)
               throws MacroExecutionException {
         ...
         ...
         ...

        /* This won't work any more:               
        return VelocityUtils.getRenderedTemplate(TMPL_LINK,context);
        */
        
        // Temporary workarround:
        String result = TMPL_LINK_HTML.
                replaceAll("Lfullid", context.getOrDefault("fullid","").toString()).
                replaceAll("Lid", context.getOrDefault("id","").toString());
        return result;
    }
}
  • TMPL_LINK was the path to the template:
    • templates/LabelLink.html
  • TMPL_LINK_HTML is the content of LabelLink.html (${id} and ${fullid} was replaced by Lid and Lfullid)

What has changed? How can I make getRenderedTemplate() work again?

BR,
Rainer

2

This won’t help you, just checked with one of my macros and Confluence 7.19.17 and for me it just works as before.

3

Ok,
perhaps it will help me, if you post a code snipplet, where getRenderedTemplate() is called and the path where the template file is stored within the “.jar" or ".orb” file.

Well I choose the extension “.html” instead of “.vm”. There also might be a difference between a leading slash at String passed at parameter one to getRenderedTemplate(). This definetly was optional before.

4

Ok, it seams that two things have changed:

  1. No Leading “/” is allowed any more
  2. File extension must be “.vm”

After changing this, it works again.