What I did (in 1.1) was to extend RequestProcessor (or in your case of 1.0 you would extend ActionServlet) to check what the request Locale is and update the Locale in the session appropriately. I wouldnt be too afraid to extend ActionServlet if I were you. It gives you a lot of flexibility, especially if your not using a container with support for filters - so another option (if using >= Servlet API 2.3) would be to define a filter to do the same thing. As the Locale used by struts is stored in Session you should be able to modify it from the filter. Havent tried it myself though.
<btw> One problem I came across implementing this sort of dynamic Locale switching, in regards to IE5 (havent tried it with 6 yet), was that if the user has modified their Regional Settings in the control panel, (and thus the language selected there does not match the language they have selected in their IE language settings), then for some requests IE submits the IE language setting, while for others it submits the Regional Settings language setting. I havent narrowed down what 'rules' it uses to determine which to submit when, but I can tell you its a damn nuisance! </btw> -----Original Message----- From: Ivan N. Zhidov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 25 February 2003 12:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to implement/describe an action that can be invoked on from any view and forward the request back to that view? I'm working with Struts 1.0 and Velocity and here's my problem: I want to be able to change the locale from any view meaning that I would like to have a universal action that changes the locale and forwards the request to the view where it came from. I can't find a way to implement that unless I extend ActionServlet. First I don't want to describe the action in struts-config as many times as there are views it can be called from. Second if I create a BaseAction and BaseActionForm and handle it there, I'd need to make any other form validation to be convoluted not to be invoked if its a locale changing request. Does anybody know of an easy way to implement it? Cheers, Ivan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
