MelatiVelocityWriter.java

/*
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 * Copyright (C) 2000 Tim Joyce
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package org.melati.template.velocity;

import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.melati.template.TemplateIOException;
import org.melati.util.MelatiWriter;

import org.apache.velocity.io.VelocityWriter;
import org.apache.velocity.util.SimplePool;

/**
 * This provides an interface for objects that output from melati.
 */
public class MelatiVelocityWriter extends MelatiWriter {

  private static SimplePool writerPool = new SimplePool(40);
  protected OutputStream outputStream;

  /**
   * Constructor.
   * @param response the response to write to
   * @throws IOException if getOutputStream throws one
   */
  public MelatiVelocityWriter(HttpServletResponse response)
      throws IOException {
    this(response.getOutputStream(), response.getCharacterEncoding());
  }

  /**
   * Constructor.
   * @param output OutputStream to write to
   * @param encoding character encoding to use
   */
  public MelatiVelocityWriter(OutputStream output, String encoding) {
    // need to make this accessible to subclasses
    outputStream = output;
    out = (VelocityWriter)writerPool.get();
    if (out == null) {
      try {
        out = new VelocityWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(output, encoding),
                                 4 * 1024, true);
      } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        throw new TemplateIOException(e);
      }
    } else {
      try {
        ((VelocityWriter)out).recycle(new OutputStreamWriter(output, encoding));
      } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        throw new TemplateIOException(e);
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * As we can write to the underlying peer the Flusher may not 
   * get started so we should start it here.
   * @return the underlying output
   */
  public VelocityWriter getVelocityWriter() {
    startFlushing();
    return (VelocityWriter)out;
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   * @see java.io.Closeable#close()
   */
  public void close()
      throws IOException {
    super.close();
    writerPool.put(getVelocityWriter());
  }

}