RE: ActionMessage replacement keys ?

2004-12-21 Thread Jim Barrows
-Original Message- From: Woodchuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 8:23 AM To: struts Subject: ActionMessage replacement keys ? hihi all, is everyone rolling their own helper function to use other message keys as replacement values when creating

RE: ActionMessage replacement keys ?

2004-12-21 Thread Radu Badita
For the 99.9% of the situations I agree with you Jim, but when you do some kind of generic subsystem to reuse across applications it's very possible to need such behavior. Here might be arguable that such situations can be avoided, but still... you might end up presenting messages that are

RE: ActionMessage replacement keys ?

2004-12-21 Thread Jim Barrows
-Original Message- From: Radu Badita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 9:12 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: ActionMessage replacement keys ? For the 99.9% of the situations I agree with you Jim, but when you do some kind of generic

RE: ActionMessage replacement keys ?

2004-12-21 Thread Joe Germuska
In some cases you may be able to use the choice formatter. It won't work in every case, but if say you are looking up a day-of-the-week name to use in a sentence, you might be able to pull it off: shipdate.warning=Your thing will ship on

RE: ActionMessage replacement keys ?

2004-12-21 Thread Woodchuck
hi Jim! but i think most of the time when there needs to be a replacement value, that value is in the form of a noun (at least that's how my messages are). so given a message with replacement placeholders, wouldn't the only issue be the placement (position) of these placeholders within the

RE: ActionMessage replacement keys ?

2004-12-21 Thread Joe Germuska
At 9:43 AM -0800 12/21/04, Woodchuck wrote: doesn't it seem odd that ActionMessage doesn't already have the ability to use other keys as replacement values... i can't think of any reason for this other than it was simply forgotten Well, it's more complicated than that - is it safe to assume that

RE: ActionMessage replacement keys ?

2004-12-21 Thread Jim Barrows
-Original Message- From: Woodchuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 10:43 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: ActionMessage replacement keys ? hi Jim! but i think most of the time when there needs to be a replacement value, that value

OT: RE: ActionMessage replacement keys ?

2004-12-21 Thread Woodchuck
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RE: ActionMessage replacement keys ?

2004-12-21 Thread Joe Germuska
but i also see your point. just having one unique message for each unique situation is simple and does the job. the only negative thing is that it takes up more memory when the message bundle is cached in application scope since there will be a lot of duplication in the bundle. i was

RE: ActionMessage replacement keys ?

2004-12-21 Thread Woodchuck
that's true. i wouldn't like to have the code assume which bundle either. but now in hindsight, perhaps one bundle per language would be better than having the ability to specify many different bundles (per language). because in the end, all of the message keys would work just as well if they

RE: ActionMessage replacement keys ?

2004-12-21 Thread Joe Germuska
At 10:55 AM -0800 12/21/04, Woodchuck wrote: that's true. i wouldn't like to have the code assume which bundle either. but now in hindsight, perhaps one bundle per language would be better than having the ability to specify many different bundles (per language). because in the end, all of the