Of course! Didn't realize that the MessageFormat could have styles.
This is a great solution
Thanks!
Chris Pratt wrote:
>
> 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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