On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Sgarlata Matt wrote:
Has there been any discussion of allowing resource bundles to inherit properties from other resource bundles? For the project I am working on, it would be nice if we had one resource bundle with application-level properties and also module-specific resource bundles which had all the properties of the application-level resource bundle plus additional ones specific to that module. I know you can specify multiple resource bundles per module in Struts, but the problem is that certain components (e.g. - the validator) always look for the default resource bundle.
In some of my projects I have run into the same problem as well, and I'm sure others have. It would be nice to have either a core module that provided resources to all modules or atleast a way of specifying a way for a the default resource bundle in modules to inherit values from a core resource bundle as to avoid having to repeat values throughout an application and introduce chances for inconsistency and error. This might be done by specifying an application-wide resource bundle in struts configuration and then have those values within all other module resource bundles (inclding the default module). You could obviously overwrite the values in your module's def. bundle. This would seem an appropriate feature, unless there were other core resources that needed to be shared throughout modules. Then it would seem a module-type enhance would be appropriate. ahh, oh so vague. :)
Hmmm
I have just read a message from the Expresso opensource mailing list asking us to review the common-resources package as well, since we integrate Struts 1.1
I remember reading way back that ResourceBundle supported delegation about of the box. In other words ResourceBundle can have a parent ResourceBundle. Is this what you want?
The common resources should support what ever `java.util.ResourceBundle' does. Is this not true?
The other issue I can see that crosses with this post is `module inheritance' , but my experience with this one is pretty low.
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