Accessing MessagResources within a jsp page

[Fabricio Sanchez]

Hello everyone, no luck on the Struts Bean tags API and no luck googleing either...

I have a MessageResources file with my internationalised text, I would like to look up a particular key for displaying into a <html:link> tag

1. <html:link page="/myAction.do" title="MessageResource_lookup_here">link text</html:link>

I know I can do this separately using

2. <bean:message key="message.key"/>

So basically, how can I get 2. and use it in 1. as the title?

Can I set up a local variable to store the value of the key I'm searching for and then use it?

I would rather not set it up on the session object if I can...

Thanx!
[ August 30, 2005: Message edited by: Fabricio Sanchez ]

[Choon-Chern Lim]

this is one way:-

  
<a href="/myAction.do" title="<bean:message key="message.key"/>">link text</a>

You can't embed custom tag in custom tag.

[Fabricio Sanchez]

That does work in terms of the internationalisation side.

However, I miss out on the <html:link/> related attributes, such as the current struts module.

The code below:

1. <html:link page="/myAction.do" title="title"/>link text 1</a></html:link>
2. <a href="/myAction.do" title="<bean:message key="message.key"/>">link text 2</a>

Generates the following HTML:

<a href="/myModule/myAction.do" title="title">link text 1</a>
<a href="/myAction.do" title="correct_message">link text 2</a>

The '/myModule' part of the href in number 2. is missing on the HTML.

Now,

Is there a better way to do what I am proposing?

(and if not)How can I get the current module (/myModule) output before the /myAction.do in the href part in number 2. ?

Thank you for your help!

[Choon-Chern Lim]

Yeah... if you are using straight HTML tag, then you have to specify the context path in front of *.do, in your case you need to insert "/myModule" to the href.

I just read another thread where you can specify something like that, if you are using JSP 2.0

  
<a href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/a.do">asdasdas</a>

The beauty of this is you don't hardcode your context path if it changes one day.

[Fabricio Sanchez]

Genius! Thanx a lot Mike!
Just don't forget your '<c : out/>'s (or equivalents...)

<a href="<c : out value="${pageContext.request.contextPath}"/>/a.do">asdasdas</a>

I didn't know you could access the pageContext like that, I wonder what other kinds of usefull information you can access like that... Thanx again!

Fab

[ August 31, 2005: Message edited by: Fabricio Sanchez ]
[ August 31, 2005: Message edited by: Fabricio Sanchez ]