Hi Joe,
I'm not sure I understand your question, but ...
Here's what I do:
I use form beans to tote data around. My labels, OTOH, are externalized and
use bundles to achieve i18n, and this is all fairly transparent on the page.
Here's what I think you want to do:
If I understand you correctly, you want to apply i18n to data the same way
that is commonly done to labels.
I don't like the idea of applying i18n data at the form-level, since that
would require the form to make requests of the model. Rather, my approach
is to have a model with built-in i18n, where I then determine the locale and
translate that to a code that I hand the model when requesting data.
Consequently, I retrieve the data for the proper locale and populate the
form -- lots cleaner, I think.
Is that clear as mud? Did I even understand your question?
Hope so!
Eddie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Hertz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <user@struts.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 6:29 PM
Subject: Locale Aware Form Objects?
It seems logical to do, but steadfastly avoided. So I'm wondering if this
is
a bad idea or not-
Example:
You have a series of i18N'd CRUD screens. On one of them, you allow the
user
to retrieve some data, edit it, and save it back.
On this type of screen, it really makes life easier if you pass the data
into the screen on an instance of the FormBean that is going to be
submitted
back to you. The JSP properties will display it as is.
This has gotten me in the habit of using FormBeans for display purposes.
So now I'm thinking, why not add i18N functionality into the FormBean? It
seems to me to be a pretty good place to do it.
If a field contains a code, you can copy that into the form into the
"widgetCode" property, confident that the getter for "widgetText" will
convert it for you to the right language.
But to do this, you need an ActionForm Object that can store a Locale and
a
MessageResources bundle.
Is there any reason not to? (Form Scoping issues? etc)
TIA
-Joe
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