One way is to use the <s:text> tag. If you define an entry in your
application properties file similar to:
format.date.long={0,date,long}
then you can display a date object in your JSP using:
<s:text name="format.date.long"><s:param value="%{user.createDate}"/></s:text>
The advantage is that each language can have a different definition, if
required, but will use the default formatting for that locale if not.
(*Chris*)
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Björn W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Is there a way to output localized dates and times from a jsp using the
> locale from the request object, not using hardcoded DateFormat pattern in
> the jsp? I want to be able to write things like:
> <someDateTimeFormtter value="dateObjOnOgnlStack" type="date"
> dateStyle="SHORT"/>
> <someDateTimeFormtter value="dateObjOnOgnlStack" type="time"
> dateStyle="SHORT"/>
>
> The struts <date> tag does use the current locale, but unfortunately it
> doesn't have type and style attributes, so it always gets both the date and
> time.
>
> JSTL has the <formatDate> tag which does exactly the right thing, but it
> seems to me that JSTL doesn't fit so well on top of Struts 2 (haven't
> managed to communicate the Date object from the OGNL stack to the JSTL
> tag).
> The Struts cookbook
>
> http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/exposing-framework-objects-to-jstl-with-a-jstl-and-displaytag-example.html
> on the subject doesn't really help me much.
>
> An option is to use the struts <text> tag with the Date object as a
> parameter and the format strings copied into the different resource
> bundles,
> but that's obviously not a very attractive solution...
>
> I could of course write the tags myself but this really seems like such a
> common problem that it must be done somewhere already?
>
> Thanks,
> Björn
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