JSP and PropertyResourceBundle

[Poonam Yadav]

Hi,
I am trying to use PropertyResourceBundle in a jsp file. I am using following code:
<% PropertyResourceBundle res = (PropertyResourceBundle) PropertyResourceBundle.getBundle("test.properties");
// we get text in the same way
String strHello = res.getString("HELLO_TEXT");
String strGoodbye = res.getString("GOODBYE_TEXT");
%>
test.properties file resides in WEB-INF/classes dir. But when I try to run my jsp page I get following error:
java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name test.properties, locale en_US
at java.util.ResourceBundle.throwMissingResourceException(ResourceBundle.java:707)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(ResourceBundle.java:604)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java:546)

Please help.

[Bear Bibeault]

Hi Poonam, welcome to the Ranch!
The most likely problem is that current directory is not what you think it is, and the properties file is not being found.
You will either need to specify an absolute path to the file, or use ServletContext.getRealPath() to find the path to the file within the web application.
hth,
bear

[Poonam Yadav]

Hi Bear,
thanks for the reply. This is the first time I am trying this. So I reaally didn't follow what do you mean by this. I have apache server with Broadvision as application server. I tried your getRealPath() also. I get following error:
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP/local/home/bvadmin/bv1to1_var/scratchpart/bvdev1_yad_0/_0002fproperty_0002ejspproperty_jsp_10.java:1402: No method matching getRealPath() found in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext.
out.println(ServletContext.getRealPath()) ;

Could you please send me some code example.
Thanks in advance
P

[Poonam Yadav]

hi,
I was able to work with getRealPath, but I am still getting following error:
Can't find bundle for base name /local/home/yad99999/scripts/partner/WEB-INF/classes/test.properties, locale en_US

[Wayne L Johnson]

This is a stab in the dark, but when you work with ResourceBundles, you don't need to specify the ".properties" in the name. Thus if you have a properties file named "test.properties", then you can read it in by using:
ResourceBundle res = ResourceBundle.getBundle("test");
Note that if you declare it as "ResourceBundle" instead of "PropertyResourceBundle" that you don't need to cast it, and you can still call the "getString(...)" method.
If you want to put "test.properties" in a sub-directory, say "properties", then you would load it by using:
ResourceBundle res = ResourceBundle.getBundle("properties/test");
This assumes that you have a directory .../WEB-INF/classes/properties.
The main thing is to remove the ".properties" from the resource name.

[Poonam Yadav]

Hi,
I just tried the solution you offered:
Now new code looks like:
PropertyResourceBundle res = PropertyResourceBundle.getBundle("test");
// we get text in the same way
String strHello = res.getString("HELLO_TEXT");
String strGoodbye = res.getString("GOODBYE_TEXT");
and test.properties is in WEB-iNF/classes dir.
But I still get following error:
Can't find bundle for base name test, locale en_US

[Wayne L Johnson]

I tried the code you provided and it didn't compile correctly. Here's what you have:

PropertyResourceBundle res = PropertyResourceBundle.getBundle("test");

I believe you should try:

ResourceBundle res = ResourceBundle.getBundle("test");

or

PropertyResourceBundle res = (PropertyResourceBundle)PropertyResourceBundle.getBundle("test");

The first method is preferable. Even though "res" is declared as a "ResourceBundle", you actually end up with an instance of "PropertyResourceBundle", which is what you want.

[Poonam Yadav]

I tried your way too I got the same error, remember my file name is test.properties

[Wayne L Johnson]

The "ResourceBundle" class automatically appends ".properties" to whatever name you specify, and it changes all periods (.) to path separators (/). So if the actual file name is "test.properties", and it is in your "../WEB-INF/classes" directory, then to load it you want to use:
ResourceBundle res = ResourceBundle.getBundle("test");
As you are changing your JSP, are you re-deploying it to the correct directory? Is it getting re-compiled? If you are using TomCat, you should have a ..\work\Standalone\localhost directory where the source files for the JSPs are kept in a sub-directory with that context name. You should be able to find the source for your JSP and make sure that has the latest version of your code. If not, it may mean that the version of the JSP that you are changing isn't getting deployed into the Tomcat directory.

[Poonam Yadav]

Yes, it's compiled but I am still getting the same error.

[Poonam Yadav]

The code is working now. The change I did is name of the property file test_en_US.properties).
But the problem is if I make changes to property file, jsp doesn't reflect those changes until I recompile the jsp page.
Any suggestions...
Poonam

[Srinivas Jag]

Originally posted by Poonam Yadav:
The code is working now. The change I did is name of the property file test_en_US.properties).

I thought that if a locale specific file was not available, the default bundle, in this case 'test.properties' would be picked up. But that doesn't seem to be happening here. Any ideas?