On 8/29/05, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Gesendet: Montag, 29. August 2005 18:15 > > An: Struts Developers List > > Betreff: Re: Some thoughts. > > > > James Mitchell wrote: > > > Well, the taglibs are more or less feature complete. So > > any changes > > > are really "extensions" or "nice-to-have". > > > > I think this is the part of the equation I don't necessarily agree > > with... I think saying they are feature-complete in terms of what they > > were meant to be years ago *is* accurate. > > They do what was set out to provide, > > > After some reasoning, I must say that I must disagree with James > statement. > A very simple example. I need to greet the user in his language. > I will help a message like this in my messages_en.properties: > msg.hello=Hello {0} > And in messages_de.properties > msg.hello=Hallo {0} > > Now I have my page, the right locale and the user object. Without EL, how > can I ever right the proper greeting?
Why "without EL"? We created the Struts-EL tags so that you could take advantage of the EL in the Struts tags. -- Martin Cooper The only way today would be: > <bean:define id="username" type="java.lang.String" name="user" > property="userName" toScope="page"/> > <bean:message key="msg.hello" arg0="<%=username%>"/> > Imho the taglib can't be considered complete, as long as there are <%= %> > in > the jsp. > It would be so simple to provider the message tag with > argXName/argXProperty > similar to name/property attributes it already has and parallel to > arg0-arg5 > it already has. > <bean:message key="msg.hello" arg0Name="user" arg0Property="userName"/> > > Would it hurt someone? I don't think so. > And there are a lot of examples where really simple functionality is > missing > in struts tags. > For example compare tags don't allow second bean/property as value. > > > Other thing. How many struts-tags actually do log? Maybe 20%? Shouldn't it > be unified? > > If there are people, who are ready to implement this, why wouldn't you let > them? :-) > > Regards > Leon > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
