Combo box internationalization

pax smith

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Hi

I hava a combo Box in JSP. and I populate it by action form
<html:select property="l">
<html

ptions name="languageType"/>
</html:select>

But now values in options are in english. But I want to put internationlization effect on them means options should display in the languge according to locale

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You have a couple of different options here.

1-If the data for the dropdown box is coming from a database, you are going to have to store the option descriptions in each language in the database with the locale or language as part of the key. Then, in the Action class that forwards to this JSP, get the locale of the client by calling super.getLocale(). From this, you can tell what language the client is using and populate the list used by <html

ptions> from the database in the appropriate language.

2-If the options are not coming from a database, but you just want them displayed in the appropriate laguage, use the <html

ption key="xxx"> tag for each option. The text for the option will then be taken from your ApplicationResources bundle and will be in the appropriate language

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Merrill Higginson

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I just thought of a third option:

You could put the value and the message key in the database and define each message key in each of the languages in your resource bundle. In your JSP, you could then iterate through the list of values and keys obtained from the database and specify something like this:

<html:select property="selected" >
<c:forEach var="option" items="options">
<option key ="${option.messageKey}" value="${option.value}" />
</c:forEach>
</html:select>

to display each option in the local language.

The above code assumes you're using the strut-el version of the tag libraries.

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Hi

I am using the third option But I am getting the following error

Java

HashMap languagesType= new HashMap ();
languagesType.put("top.property.link" ,"1");
languagesType.put("top.property.unlink","2");
languagesType.put("top.property.item","3");
request.setAttribute("languageType",languagesType);

JSP
<html:select property="language">
<c:forEach var="option" items="languageType">
<option key ="${option.messageKey}" value="${option.value}" />
</c:forEach>
</html:select>

Error

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: <h3>Validation error messages from TagLibraryValidator for c</h3><p>null: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Attribute "style" was already specified for element "html:select".</p>
org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:50)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:411)

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When you use <html:select>, you must also use <html:option> instead of just <option>.
[ January 26, 2006: Message edited by: Merrill Higginson ]

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