>From your action class you can call.
MessageResources messages = getResources();
String message = messages.get(locale, "resource.key");
See the API docs for all of the different ways to
retrieve a message resource.
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/api/org/apache/struts/util/MessageResources.html
David
--- Mikael Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think that the best thing to do would be to not
> use the text of
> the button at all. If you use the text you will need
> to change the
> code as well if you decide to change the text on the
> button by
> editing the property file. (And if you get
> internationalization into
> the picture it will be even worse.)
>
> I think the solution would be to have different
> names on the
> buttons (using the 'property' attribute of the
> <html:submit> tag) and
> check the button used by having properties for all
> the possible names
> in the Form bean and see which property that is
> different from null.
> (Or by doing a request.getParameter() as you do in
> your example, but
> I like the automatic way better :-) )
>
> The downside of that is of course that you need
> extra properties in the
> Form bean class but I still think it will be worth
> it.
>
> To come back to the original question I do not know
> how to do it
> but I guess that it would be possible to find by
> checking the source
> of the <bean:message> tag.
>
> Regards
> Mikael
>
>
>
>
> Martijn Spronk wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm pretty new to struts, and just started
> developing a fairly
> > simple app, however taking a bit beyond the
> standard example functionality.
> >
> > I have a (probably) pretty simple question:
> > I'm in the perform method of the Action class,
> processing a form submit, but
> > want to
> > forward to different mappings depending on which
> button was pressed.
> > In the JSP I am using the
> ApplicationResources.properties file to create the
> > button text for the
> > different buttons, so now I need to access this
> text also to determine which
> > action to
> > take.
> >
> > So how do I access the descriptions from the
> properties file in the Action
> > class?
> >
> > my form:
> > -------------------
> > <tr>
> > <td colspan="5" align="right">
> > <html:submit styleClass="bodyform">
> > <bean:message key="button.cancel"/>
> > </html:submit> </td>
> > <td>
> > <html:submit styleClass="bodyform">
> > <bean:message key="button.edit"/>
> > </html:submit> </td>
> > <td>
> > <html:submit styleClass="bodyform">
> > <bean:message key="button.confirm"/>
> > </html:submit></td>
> > </tr>
> > -------------------
> >
> > So what do I put at the ... in the following
> fragment of the perform()
> > method to
> > be able to get the textual value of the
> button.cancel and button.edit?
> > -------------------
> > String submit = request.getParameter("submit");
> > // Forward control depending on which button was
> pressed
> > if (submit.equals(...))
> > return (mapping.findForward("cancel"))
> > else if (submit.equals(...))
> > return (mapping.findForward("edit"))
> > -------------------
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Martijn.
>
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