Yip, that is what I ended up doing :). I was just hoping there was a way to send the session into the MessageResources as it would save me some time. Now I have to map our language id's to locales, slight headache, but not the end of the world :).
Cheers, Simon. -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurie Harper Sent: Friday, 20 October 2006 10:40 a.m. To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: Re: Session based langugeId in MessageResources Simon Pink wrote: > Hi there, > > Nutshell version: > The problem is that I cannot seem to get access to the session from > within my MessageResources, so I cannot call my 'myWebSession.getLanguageId()' > method. > > Explanation: > I need a MessageResources handler too solve two issues: 1) Pulling > messages from a DB table, and 2) Pulling messages that match a users 'languageId' > which is retrieved from the DB and set into the session when they logon. > Issue number 2 is the tricky one... > > The languageId is an Integer and maps to a language table (e.g.: 1 = > English, 2 = Chinese). We do not use the notion of locales for legacy > reasons. In effect, in the MessageResources.getMessage(Locale locale, > String > key) method, I need to call something like: > Message message = messageFactory.getMessage(new Integer(key), > myWebSession.getLanguageId()); > > Of course it is my class so I can create a method to pass in the > session, but I have make sure the html:errors etc can use my MessageResources class. > Hopefully someone out there will point out that this is a simple > problem, and that I am missing something obvious... It may be a silly question, but why don't you just set up the session locale based on your legacy languageId? Then all the standard i18n infrastructure will just work without any trickery. L. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
