Or how about an ugly way? ;-)
<%@ page import="org.apache.struts.util.MessageResources,
org.apache.struts.action.Action"%>
<%
MessageResources resources =
(MessageResources) request.getAttribute(Action.MESSAGES_KEY);
%>
<%=resources.getMessage("userForm.userId")%>
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 12:04 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: How do you access an application.properties value directly
from within a class?
You mean like this?
<bean:define id="someKey">
<bean:message key="some.key"/>
</bean:define>
<some:otherTag value="<%=someKey%>"/>
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James Mitchell
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Deegan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: How do you access an application.properties value directly from
within a class?
> Hey Matt / All,
>
> Do you have an elegant way - in scriptlet form - at the JSP level to grab
> an application.properties value to then use as a JSP expression (
<%=...%>)
> in the "value" attribute of a tag.
>
> I had tried to use the bean:message tag to get the "value" to populate
into
> the "value" attribute of another tag - that is when trying to combine two
> tags - but the page fails to compile. Can't remember the exact error msg
but
> it was along the lines of " = expected ..."
>
> I know you can use JSP expressions ( <%=...%>) in the "value" attribute of
> tags - but JSP compile fails when I try to use bean:message tag to
directly
> populate a tag's "value" attribute.
>
> So do you have an elegant way - in scriptlet form - at the JSP level to
> grab an application.properties value to then use as a JSP expression (
> <%=...%>) in the "value" attribute of a tag.
>
> I searched for some time for an answer on this but got lost in the maze.
> Maybe the wording of my searches let me down.
>
> Or should I be attempting to do this in another way ... without scriptlets
> ... to get an application.properties value to populate into the "value"
> attribute of another tag.
>
> Any help appreciated ...
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Raible, Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:53 AM
> Subject: RE: How do you access an application.properties value directly fr
> om within a class?
>
>
> > I forgot to add the simplest way in an Action class:
> >
> > MessageResources resources = getResources(request);
> >
> > resources.getMessage("keyName");
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Raible, Matt
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:51 AM
> > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
> > Subject: RE: How do you access an application.properties value directly
> > fr om within a class?
> >
> >
> > If you're just looking for the values, grab it as a resource bundle.
> Here's
> > how I grab it in a Business Delegate:
> >
> > // Get the application's messages resources
> > ResourceBundle resources =
> > ResourceBundle.getBundle("ApplicationResources");
> > String appDBVersion = resources.getString("webapp.db_version");
> >
> > And then of course, there's errors and messages - where it grabs it
> > automagically:
> >
> > errors.add(ActionErrors.GLOBAL_ERROR,
> > new ActionError("errors.existing.user",
> > userForm.getUsername(),
> > userForm.getEmail()));
> >
> > messages.add(ActionMessages.GLOBAL_MESSAGE,
> > new ActionMessage("user.deleted",
> > userForm.getEmail()));
> >
> > And lastly, you can get it from the servlet context in a servlet outside
> of
> > struts:
> >
> > MessageResources resources =
> > ((MessageResources)
> > getServletContext().getAttribute(Globals.MESSAGES_KEY));
> >
> > resources.getMessage("userFormEx.username");
> >
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Galbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:28 AM
> > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
> > Subject: How do you access an application.properties value directly from
> > within a class?
> >
> >
> > When Struts load, it grabs application.properties and stores it's keys
and
> > values somewhere. From within an action class I need to access a value
in
> > application.properties. How could one do this?
> >
> > tia,
> > mark
> >
> >
> >
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