Hi all, So I've upgraded our rather large app. to Struts 1.1 b3, and I'm all grins except for one thing: The format options on the new WriteTag require that your MessageResources implementation return null for it to apply default formatting rules to your properties. Otherwise, when it attempts to look up the default format string key for the data type of the property being written, e.g. "org.apache.struts.taglib.bean.format.int", it will get some dummy value back (in our case, "SYMBOL VALUE NOT FOUND: <keyName>"), and then of course an exception occurs when it tries to use this in a applyPattern() call to a Format object.
We would really rather not return null from a call to getMessage(), as it is very useful in our app. (esp. for QA) to be able to see what message key is missing visually, rather than having to look at a log. So, I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem and what their solution was. I'm going to solve this one in our MessageResources implementation by referring to the WriteTag's constant values for these format strings, and if the key being looked up equals any of those, return null, otherwise return our dummy "SYMBOL NOT FOUND" value (when returnNull==false). But I don't like it very much. This should really be a configuration option in struts-config or something. Does anyone know if there are plans to change this behavior? peace, Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
