How to access a (non default) resource bundle from .jsp

[Norman Rozental]

Hi there folks,
I've got in my .jsp:

<bean:message bundle="bundleKey" key="a.message" /> 

In my struts-config-moduleName.xml file I've defined:

 <message-resources key="bundleKey" parameter="NonDefaultResources" null="false" /> 

I'm getting the error:

Cannot find message resources under key [B]bundleKey[/B]

I posted an earlier message asking how to obtain this bundle from within the Action class and had a reply which showed how to do this. But now I'm stuck with the .jsp way of accessing a bundle.
Any help would be most appreciated!
Happy new year!
Norman

[Norman Rozental]

I think I found the way to do it...
In my Action, I do:

MessageResources resources = this.getResources(request, "someKey");  

I then include it as an

attribute

belonging to the

request

Eg,

request.setAttribute("meaningfulName", resources);

Then in my .jsp I've got:

<bean:message bundle="meaningfulName" key="keyIntoMessageResourcesBundle"/>

And that's it. It works ok. Is this the proper way of doing things?
Cheers.
Norman.

[Rick Hightower]

You should not have to do that. Do this instead.

<bean:message bundle="keyYouUsedForTheBundleInStrutsConfig" key="keyForTheMessageInTheBundle"/>

[ December 30, 2003: Message edited by: Rick Hightower ]

[Norman Rozental]

Hi Rick,
I tried what you suggested and get the error:

Cannot find message resources under key xxx javax.servlet.jsp.JspException

where xxx is the key defined as a message-resource in my struts-config-module.xml file.
I am using request scope. Would this cause a problem? Maybe what you suggest can only be applied to the default struts-config.xml file?
Confused.
Normie.

[Benson Fung]

Norman,

I got the same as you have right now. It seems it doesn't work in struts-config-moduleName.xml file.

Do you have alternatives? Becasue I don't want to use programming to config the resources bundle.


Thanks
Benson

[Hao Zhang]

Same problem, I think it must be a bug of struts 1.1,
but I found JSPs in module can get the default resources, so I define common messages in struts-config.xml like this:

<message-resources parameter="edu.pku.cc.democenter.ApplicationResources" key="root"/>

then in JSP use:

<bean:write key="mykey" bundle="root"/>

to retrive "mykey" message. besides, <bean:write> tag without bundle property specified can get module messages as well.
BTW, the validator plugin's standard messages can not be found anyway.