hyperlink and message resources..

[Ronan Dowd]

I would like my JSP to render a link similiar to this:
"User DOYLE_T is out of office" (for example). The username in capitals is a URL that once the user clicks can see a page showing that user's profile. I can do this on the JSP fine (i.e store the username in the request and construct the link on the JSP using the username).

For my application though the above message needs to be generic so that any action can add their own specific text. In this respect i will need to construct the message (including the URL) in the action (and then store in the request).

Does anyone know how i can cleanly do this (apart from prepending "a href" etc into my variable in my action) ? Normal text would be fine but ament sure how to incorporate the URL part..

any help (code sample / link / example) would be great. Thanks...

[Jim Hardin]

Ronan,
What about something like:

In your Struts Message Resources
page.one={$} is out of the office
page.two={$} is on another planet


In your action(s):

    String pattern
    if ( whatever-it-takes-to-be-page-one )  {
        pattern = getResources(request).getMessage( getLocale(request), "page.one" );
    } else if ( whatever-it-takes-to-be-page-two )  {
        pattern = getResources(request).getMessage( getLocale(request), "page.two" );
    }
    MessageFormat formatter = new MessageFormat( pattern );
    request.setAttribute( "usermessage", formatter.format( userName );

Or what about instead of putting it in your action, using "bean-el:message" in your JSP something like:

    <html:link page="/Whatever.do">
        <bean-el:message key="page.one" arg0="${userName}" />
    </html:link>

Good luck!
-Jim
[ July 24, 2007: Message edited by: Jim Hardin ]