Try with: <p><@s.text name="welcome.message"/></p>
Cheers, Josep 2012/2/29 Tom Hjellming <thjellm...@gmail.com> > I'm trying to internationalize a simple Struts2-based webapp that uses > Freemarker as the view technology. The usage of freemarker templating > pulling values from the Action object is working fine. > > But when I try to leverage Struts2's TextProvider capability via > getText(), it doesn't work. > > My action extends ActionSupport which implements the TextProvider > interface. > > My freemarker template file contains this: > > <p>${getText('welcome.message'**)}</p> > > My properties file is: {MyActionName}.properties and located in same > directory as the java source. It contains: > > welcome.message=The Welcome message goes here > > But I get the dreaded freemarker.core.**InvalidReferenceException: > Expression getText is undefined. > > To test that the resource bundle can be located, I inserted code in my > Action's execute(): > String res; > try > { > res = getText("welcome.message", "default welcome msg from > execute() method"); > } > catch (Throwable e) > { > res = null; > } > > With the debugger, I see the res is being set to 'The Welcome message goes > here' -- which tells me the ResourceBundle is working inside TextProvider. > > So it seems the issue is Freemarker not accessing the TextProvider > interface. > > Other things I've tried: > - ${text('welcome.message')} -- same result > - having my action implement TemplateMethodModel per this link: > http://weblog.masukomi.org/**2009/03/12/localization-for-** > struts-freemarker-users/<http://weblog.masukomi.org/2009/03/12/localization-for-struts-freemarker-users/> > but that didn't work either. > > Can anyone provide any hints for how to get this very basic thing working? > > thanks, > Tom > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > user-unsubscribe@struts.**apache.org<user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org > >