JSTL makes this possible. I am surprised this feature was not built into tiles at some point without requiring JSTL.
Thank you for the reply and answer. Much appreciated. -Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Lea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 6:34 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Using Message Resources with Tiles? > > I put keys into the tile definition eg > > <definition name="default-layout" path="/pages/default-layout.jsp"> > <put name="windowTitle" value="main.window.title"/> > > Then I just treat them as keys. Using either JSTL/EL (<fmt:message>)or > Struts tags (<bean:message>) to fetch the text from the message resources. > The tiles tags don't provide a method of getting the value directly from > the resource. > > so I use <tiles:importAttribute scope="request"/> so that the values are > available in any of my tiles, then using JSTL/EL I can use ${windowTitle} > in any tag as the key. > > eg > > <fmt:message key="${windowTitle}"><fmt:param > value="${someOtherParam}"/> </fmt:message> > > or > > <bean:message key="${windowTitle}" arg0="${someOtherParam}"/> > > > Mark Womack wrote: > > >I can't imagine that this question has not been asked before, but I could > >not dig up answers in the mail archives or the online documentation. I > >apologize in advance if there is an obvious answer that I do not see. > > > >Instead of embedding a text value in my tiles definition file like this: > > > ><definition name="default-layout" path="/pages/default-layout.jsp"> > > <put name="window-title" value="The title of the window here"/> > >... > ></definition> > > > >I want it to reference the text from the message resources I have already > >defined in my MessageResources.properties file: > > > >main.window.title=The title of the window here > > > >Maybe with something like this: > > > ><definition name="default-layout" path="/pages/default-layout.jsp"> > > <put name="window-title" value="main.window.title"/> > >... > ></definition> > > > >Is there a way to do this? I'd rather have all of my localizable text in > >one place, namely the message properties file. There should be a way to > >reference strings from the message properties files by key...right? > > > >I was expecting to find an attribute on the tiles:getAsString jsp tag. > >Something like: > > > ><tiles:getAsString name="window-title" useAsMessageKey="true"/> > > > >or > > > ><tiles:getAsString messageKey="window-title"/> > > > >Like I said, I have to believe that this has come up as a question > before. > >I hope there is a good answer. > > > >Thanks, > >-Mark > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > -- > Jason Lea > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
