Hi,
I stumbled on this problem when I wrote a small application using struts.
I used the struts i18n support, with its resource-file. Later on I wanted
that the UI got fancier and wrote my own custom tag. Now within this
custom tag I found the need to put some information that was i18n-sensitive.
Of course in this case there was an easy solution (struts being OpenSource):
I copied over their code into my tag.
BUT
What is the tag, whose functionality one needs, is not open source?
What if struts changes there i18n implementation, will I need to re-engineer
their changes?
Does this make the use case clearer? i18n is just a sample...
regards
Alexander Jesse
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I'm not quite following... could you provide a little more info on what
you're trying to do? e.g. what i18n-tag do you want to use & what about it?
Some things might have simple solutions that you don't need to actually call
the i18n-tag source itself, but work in conjunction with it... e.g. if
you're just trying to get a value for a key from the bundle, just use the
i18n:bundle tag's id attribute to define an attribute in the scripting
language, provide that attribute name to your tag, then use
pageContext.getAttribute inside your tag to get at the bundle that i18n is
using.
Most of what the i18n tags are doing are standard java calls
(java.text.MessageFormat, etc) once you've got the right ResourceBundle
object.
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Jesse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 1:47 PM
> To: taglibs-dev
> Subject: calling a tag from custom-tag source
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a way to call a tag from within the
> source-code of my
> own custom tag.
> Example: call a i18n-tag in a custom tag
>
> So far I have not found a solution to this problem...
>
> all hints are welcome
> Alexander Jesse
>
