Hi Oleg,
Thanks, that would be great.
I reckon that there should be some kind of method to allow the bean property
to specify it's format... somehow. I'll have a think.
Cheers
Ned
>From: Oleg V Alexeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Oleg V Alexeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Ned Seagoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Locale access from within a bean?
>Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 02:19:23 +0300
>
>Hello Ned,
>
>I use my own tag - bean:format, which uses locale from session to
>print number and date values. It can be extended without problems to
>support currency printing. So it can use format string from special
>parameter and print values on special manner. I can send it to you.
>
>Tuesday, December 12, 2000, 2:12:08 AM, you wrote:
>
>
>NS> Just wondering if there is anyway I can get access to the session
>Locale
>NS> from within a bean property get function?
>
>NS> Reason? I'm defining a money object, it has a value and currency. I
>want to
>NS> display this on a page via a <bean:write>
>
>NS> Only problem is that each different locale may have a different way of
>NS> displaying a certain currency value. Fine, I can format these with the
>NS> format class from inside my bean getDisplayvalue class, but I cannot
>think
>NS> of a way of getting a hold of the session locale to do the translation.
>
>NS> The only other way of doing this I can think of is along these lines
>NS> (forgive me, I'm nowhere near any docs at the moment and it's late)
>
>NS> <bean:message key="<bean:write id="currency_val"
>property="displaykey"/>"
>NS> arg0="<bean:write id="currency_val" property="value"/> />
>
>NS> Which is:
>NS> a) pants. Overblown. Difficult to explain that to our html designers. I
>dont
>NS> want to keep fixing their code!
>NS> b) Not going to work I don't think. How do we deal with locale
>sensitive
>NS> number formatting at the moment? How can I get the object value into
>arg0
>NS> rather than a text version of it?
>NS> c) probably quite slow. I wouldnt want to call the message formatter
>every
>NS> time with string that contains the number format quite slow? I mean
>parsing
>NS> that {0,number,###.000} everytime must be a little tedious?
>
>NS> On the other hand, is there some way I can make bean:write call a
>function
>NS> like getDisplayvalue( Locale currentLocale ) easily?
>
>NS> or can I write the locale into the threadlocal storage?
>
>NS> or any better suggestions anybody?
>NS>
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