fmt:message bundle= issue

[Serge Knystautas]

I was helping a client out today with a servlet container 
upgrade, and hit upon an interesting issue.  They use 
<fmt:message bundle="xyz" key="foobar" /> throughout their 
webapp.  The point of interest is the bundle="xyz" 
attribute as usually I think people use fmt:setBundle or 
fmt:bundle.  According to the spec, fmt:message's bundle 
parameter is supposed to take EITHER a String or a 
LocalizedContext value.  The TLDDoc generated 
documentation says it requires a String.

However, if you look at the code in the RT module in the 
JSTL 1.1/JSP 2.0 implementation, you can see it only has a 
LocalizedContext setter method.  Once more, because there 
is no PropertyEditor for LocalizedContext, my servlet 
container is complaining that it cannot use a String for 
this attribute.

This seems correct, that you need a PropertyEditor to 
define setText() to convert a String into a specific 
property type, but the JSTL API does not define one.  Is 
this a bug in the spec, a bug in the ASF JSTL impl, or a 
bug in my servlet container?

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Serge Knystautas
Lokitech
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