--- Paul Sundling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd be interested in creating a patch for that. I always thought it was > > abitrary having some number of arguments like that myself. :) I think > David is right on needing the single Object version, which is probably > pretty common. To imagine why, just remember when sun tried to > deprecate ServletRequest().getParameter(). > > I'll be busy all this week, but I could attempt it next week. At that > point I'll also send an update on some other minor stuff I'd volunteered > > to do and any related feedback I needed.
The strategy for MessageResources is to remove it from Struts and migrate to commons resources for messaging. I think I already updated the commons resources version to not include the 2,3,4,5 parameter method variants. David > > Paul Sundling > > Larry Meadors wrote: > > >>>Other than some confusion, it is not a big deal, but it seems > >>>odd to me that they are different. Am I missing something? Is > >>>there a reason for not adding the five parameter version to > >>>the MessageResources method? > >>> > >>> > >>IMO, there should be 3 versions of the method: accepting no > >>replacement args, accepting one replacement arg, accepting > >>an array of replacement args. The 4 or 5 arg methods seem > >>arbitrary. > >> > >> > >> > > > >I think you are right and that seems like a simple solution. But I > >wonder if even the one replacement arg is worth the extra code. > > > >The tag always calls the array version of the method, and the extra > >parameters to getMessage() buy you nothing because the methods simply > >convert the parameters to arrays, which can be done in-line anyway! :-) > > > >Clearly, it is not a pressing issue because it works. I think the tag > is > >fine because it can be messy to pass arrays in jsp, but these two > >methods are the only ones that are actually needed: > > - getMessage(String, Object[]) > > - getMessage(Locale, String, Object[]) > > > >The rest is fluff and IMO should be deprecated in 1.2 and removed in > the > >next release. ;-) > > > >Larry > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]