ImportTool Reference Documentation

General-purpose text-importing view tool for templates.

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read()

Returns the supplied URL rendered as a String. String read(String url) The URL to import. 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://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools") $import.read("/wookie.jsp")