>I'm also new to struts, could you post the relavent portion of your
>ApplicationResources.properties file for me. I'm interested in how your
>code works if you want to have the button be in French or whatever.
Sorry Marty, I am not using internationalization in
any way. My properties file is simply a modification of the
one that comes with the struts-example app.
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twice? (One right away and 10 minutes later again)
Martijn Spronk wrote:
> >From your action class you can call.
> >
> >MessageResources messages = getResources();
> >String message = messages.get(locale, "resource.key");
>
> Thanks, that did the job.
>
> PS The method is getMessage(), not get().
>
> --- 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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