thanks paul,
you are right. for what it's worth, i'd already solved my problem by trying
´ in place of the apostrophe in the resources bundle (great minds
think alike ;¬) i'll give the double apostrophe's a shot next.
cheers all,
will
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Linden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 6:40 AM
Subject: Re: Help: ActionError - <html:errors /> does not expand the {0}
placeholder
> Your comment about the apostrophe is a clue - it's a special character
> in the MessageFormat class that's used for quoting. Use two apostrophes
> to display '. I think you'll find {0} will then be evaluated.
>
> And relax - Jeff's response may have been no help to you, but he was
> trying.
> And please turn off your request for return receipts.
>
> Paul
>
> w i l l i a m b o y d wrote:
>
> >hello all,
> >
> >developing on w98 with tomcat 3.2.24, mysql 3.23.36, struts 1.0.2, jdk
> >1.3.1., servlet 2.2. will be deploying on basically similar setup; but
> >deployment os is xp.
> >
> >i got a jsp page that has a choice box that allows multiple choices. i
set a
> >validation rule in my action form's validate method, that disallows users
> >from selecting more options than permitted by my limit. if a user goes
over
> >the limit the form doesn't get submitted. the validation rule is checked
> >just fine; struts creates an error for it and adds it to the errors
> >collection. but the error message that is displayed on the input page
does
> >not contain the parameterized message as expected. instead, it shows the
> >complete, unformatted message, exactly (minus an apostrophe) as it
appears
> >in the resource bundle! does anybody know what i'm overlooking? is this a
> >bug in 1.0.2?
> >
> >here is what gets displayed (verbatim) on the input page after the
> >validation error is created:
> >
> > Sorry! Youve selected too many choices for {0}. (what happened to
my
> >apostrophe in "You've" ?)
> >
> >here is the appropriate line from my resource bundle:
> >
> > error.prefs.limit=Sorry! You've selected too many choices for {0}.
> >
> >here is a snip from my form's validate method:
> > ...
> > ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();
> > ...
> > if ( isTooManyPrefs ) {
> > ActionError prefMusicError = new ActionError(
"error.prefs.limit",
> >"Preferred Music" );
> > errors.add( "prefMusic", prefMusicError );
> >
> > }
> > ...
> >
> >here are the results of me looping through prefMusicError.getValues()
inside
> >validate:
> >
> > error.prefs.limit's replacement value # 0: Preferred Music
> > error.prefs.limit's replacement value # 1: null
> > error.prefs.limit's replacement value # 2: null
> > error.prefs.limit's replacement value # 3: null
> >
> >
> >here is a snip from the input page that generates the validation error
and
> >to which struts reports the error:
> >
> > ...
> > <td><html:errors /> </td>
> > ...
> >
> >what's going on here? why doesn't struts format the message to include
the
> >replacement value. it's obviously there! at least *i* can get at it from
the
> >object array that i get from ActionError.getValues()! please, help!
thanks
> >in advance.
> >
> >will
> >
> >
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