I was talking about struts not seeing the change to your browser's language
setting. Of course you can change the language in struts with the code
you've given. I don't know what's causing your problem but it is rather
strange.
Dave
>Hi, Dave,
>
>First, thanks for taking the time to address this. You can do what you
>said you cannot do with struts. I do it. The code is simple enough. It
>is (where the page with this code returns a checkbox choice of nine
>languages as the value of the "locale" parameter):
>
>/////////////////////////
><%
>String language = null;
>String localeValue = request.getParameter("locale");
>
>if(localeValue != null) {
> language = localeValue.substring(0, 2);
> response.setContentType("text/html;charset=utf-8");
> Locale newLocale = new Locale(language);
> session.setAttribute(Action.LOCALE_KEY, newLocale);
>}
>%>
><template:insert template="../template/template_work.jsp">
> <template:put name="title" content="../title/language_title.jsp"/>
> <template:put name="navigation"
>content="../navigation/standard_navigation.jsp"/>
> <template:put name="content" content="../content/language_content.jsp"/>
></template:insert>
>///////////////////////
>
>I appreciate the fact that you endorse, as I do, the standard struts
>presentation tier patterns (Intercepting Filter, Front Controller, View
>Helper, Composite View (used here), Service to Worker, and Dispatcher View)
>so ably outlined in Core J2EE Patterns by Alur, Crupi, and Malks. However,
>there are times when the best practices are not possible do to other
>constraints, and this is one of those times. I actually have it working
>fine now by running two sessions. When the first session comes into
>index.jsp (Tomcat 4.0.2) I forward to a language.jsp page (with the above
>code). This creates, or reasons I yet don't understand, a new session for
>the page. Then, when I navigate throughout the site, it stays at the
>latter session id. Any return to index.jsp returns to the first session
>id. I am not kidding here, as that wag from Miami Dave Whatshisname says!
>But, a return to the other pages returns you back to the second session id.
> It really does, honest. So, what I did what to copy the index.jsp page
>functionality into another page called home.jsp, and a return to home now
>looks like a return to index.jsp but is a return to home.jsp, and that has
>the second session id. Why, I don't know yet. But, I do know it changes
>my language and keeps it changed, unless I go back to index.jsp, which has
>the initial language all along. Weird, huh? Do you have an explanation.
>Whatever the explanation is, it is doing what I want it to do now. Thanks
>again.
>
>At 11:02 PM 9/10/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>>You can't start up your server, hit the page in one language, change the
>>language setting in your browser, and hit the page again and expect it to
>>change languages. Struts sets the language in the session the first time
>>you hit the site and not after that. This may be causing your strange
>>problems.
>>
>>Also, sometimes even after restarting tomcat my page wouldn't change
>>languages so I think it reloaded my old session from disk or something.
>>Generally, I've found that stopping the server and then changing your
>>language works but not always.
>>
>>I would not allow direct access to your index.jsp files. Create an
>>index.jsp that redirects to a struts action (through the controller) that
>>forwards to index2.jsp (your real index page). That way, you're going
>>through the controller for every request and can do some common security
>>or logging there.
>>
>>Dave
>>
>>
>>>From: micael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>Subject: Re: Session Values for Action.LOCALE_KEY Change
>>>Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:04:55 -0700
>>>
>>>The problem was that there were different sessions. So, I solved my
>>>problem temporarily by creating a home.jsp in the same session as the
>>>other pages, which is a different session for reasons I don't yet
>>>understand from index.jsp. Additionally, if I set my browser for
>>>Italian, now the index.jsp page always is in English, but when I go to
>>>the other pages they pick up the default value. What is going on here?
>>>I do not send the index.jsp page to the controller.
>>>
>>>At 03:56 PM 9/10/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>>>>Do you directly link to the index.jsp or go through the controller
>>>>servlet?
>>>>You say the locale in the session is different on index.jsp, verify that
>>>>you're in the same session between pages.
>>>>
>>>>Hope that helps,
>>>>Dave
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>From: micael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>Subject: Session Values for Action.LOCALE_KEY Change
>>>>>Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 14:13:28 -0700
>>>>>
>>>>>I set the session locale in a language.jsp page with:
>>>>> session.setAttribute(Action.LOCALE_KEY, new Locale(language));
>>>>>where language is a return from a form parameter "locale" via:
>>>>> String localeValue = request.getParameter("locale");
>>>>> String language = localeValue.substring(0, 2);
>>>>>This works on all pages, except the index.jsp page. I can set the
>>>>>language variable to ko and the entire site will stay on Korean, but
>>>>>when I go to the index.jsp page, it is back to English. If I go from
>>>>>the index.jsp page back to the other pages, they stay in Korean. I am
>>>>>very puzzled.
>>>>>
>>>>>Any ideas. I posted this before, but it chopped my code off.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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