The DigestingPlugIn simply uses Digester to process an XML file and put something in the application context; the simplest possible use case is to use one plugin for each menu you need and put lists of LabelValueBeans into application context. (You can get fancier if you want.)
Then you'd have a separate plugin for each domain of measurement (distance, area, volume, etc) or locale.
You could probably actually use the DigestingPlugIn without post Struts-1.1, except that you'd need your own LabelValueBean class (the one in Struts lacked a no-arg constructor at the time of the 1.1 release.) If you just want it in a package, you could grab the version from http://demo.jgsullivan.com/struts/ which is the same in spirit.
Hm. Now that I read a little more, I wonder if you're also looking for a localization solution? In any case, using the DigestingPlugIn, you could make a slightly smarter bean which was localized. It would take more code, but nothing too hard to put together.
Joe
At 7:55 AM -0700 6/6/04, Riyad Kalla wrote:
This doesn't necessarily sound like a Struts question, so I'll answer it in the general terms:
1) Create your ResourceBundle for that properties file containing all your measurement information, then from that get the enumeration from "getKeys" then cycle over the keys getting the values, doing your logic on each value (if contains DISTANCE then blah).
2) You can call get normally here but when you get back your result, call a string.split(",") on it to get back a 2-element array, one with "en_US" in it and the other with "USA" in it, then you do your logic to make one the display variable and one the logical variable in the system. NOTE: String.split is insanely fast, actually all of the regexp package is insanely fast, I tried benchmarking it once to see if I should implement a much simplier routine for my parser, and the regexp package blew me away, it was almost rediculous how fast it was.
Johan Wasserman - BCX - Infrastructure Services wrote:
As a RAW newbie: How do I buid an ArayList of properties for a menu? for example; I have a resource file containing: DISTANCE_MILE=Mile DISTANCE_KILO=Kilometre DISTANCE_FEET=Feet DISTANCE_METRE=Metre AREA_SQ_FOOT=Sqare Foot AREA_SQ_METRE=Square Metre VOLUME_QUBIC_INCH=q' VOLUME_QUBIC_METRE=m2
now, I need to (from a class), get the resource bundle and build an araylist of (key, value) for DISTANCE* so that only the distance parameters show up in my list.
To do this even more trickier.... if I have something like: LANG_EN_US=en_US, USA LANG_EN_UK=en_UK, England ...etc
how do I have the en_US (constant) as the value and USA (variable, depending on language) as the display?
get my drift?
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