In general, the answer to most questions like this is to do the work in the Action, and then place the result in a bean for easy display. You can obtain a reference to the message resources in the Action,
MessageResources resource = servlet.getResources(); and then use the Java text-handling classes http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/format/index.html like you would in any conventional Java program. The outcome can then be passed to the page in a simple JavaBean and output with bean:write. The strength of Struts is that the Action class provides a gateway to the business tier and lets us write Java programs like Java programs. -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY US -- Developing Java Web Applications with Struts -- Tel: +1 585 737-3463 -- Web: http://husted.com/about/services Fabien Modoux wrote: > > I am trying to use the Message tag to handle the display of plural vs. > singular. I tried the following simple example but it does not work as > ChoiceFormat requires a Number but MessageTag's argN are of type String. > > > jsp: > > <% for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) { %> > <bean:message key="test1" arg0="<%= String.valueOf(i) %>"/> > <% } %> > > > application resources: > > test1=There {0,choice,0#are no files|1#is one file|2#are {0,number,integer} > files}. > > > error: > > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot format given Object as a Number > at java.text.NumberFormat.format(NumberFormat.java:209) > at java.text.Format.format(Format.java:121) > at java.text.MessageFormat.format(MessageFormat.java:742) > at java.text.MessageFormat.format(MessageFormat.java:491) > at java.text.Format.format(Format.java:121) > at > org.apache.struts.util.MessageResources.getMessage(MessageResources.java:325 > ) > at org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.message(RequestUtils.java:586) > at org.apache.struts.taglib.bean.MessageTag.doStartTag(MessageTag.java:239) > > Has anyone found a workaround for this, or is there another way to do it? > > Thanks in advance, > > Fabien > > --------------------------------------------- > Fabien Modoux, > Voicemate - http://www.voicemate.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
