Web coding help

[brikis98]

We are using struts 1.2.4 at work and I'm having a problem with html:messages tag. In the attached code, you can see that for the property "warning", I'm trying to display all the errors in the locale ${locale} (set dynamically to en_US, ru_RU, es_MX, etc).

The error messages show up just fine, but the problem is that they are ALWAYS in English.

No matter what I set ${locale} to, or even if I hard-code something like locale="ru_RU", the text is always pulled from my english resource bundle. I know my other 14 resource bundles work fine, as the rest of my UI shows up correctly in any language I need.

Is this a bug with struts and if so, is there a workaround?

 

[Argo]

I don't usually use html:messages, but try passing ${pageContext.request.locale} as the parameter.

 

[brikis98]

Originally posted by: Argo
I don't usually use html:messages, but try passing ${pageContext.request.locale} as the parameter.

The page we're building is displaying multiple languages at once and is encoded in unicode.

Depending on a drop-down the user chooses, we set the variable ${locale} to the desired locale and use the fmt:setLocale tag (and locale attributes where necessary) so that the proper resource bundles are picked. This works everywhere except with this html:messages tag.

In short, we're not explicitly setting ${pageContext.request.locale} anywhere, and it always seems to be english (which could be the problem, but why the hell is the html:messages tag ignore the locale attribute?).

How/where does ${pageContext.request.locale} get set?

 

[brikis98]

ok, i think i finally figured it out.

1. In the action class, I had to add the lines (not positive both are necessary):

response.setLocale(locale);
setLocale(locale, l);

2. In the JSP, I had to remove the locale attribute from the html:messages tag. No idea why, but once it was gone, and the two lines above were added, all worked smoothly.