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How to getResources() in a JSP page?

In my JSP page, I want to get a text in ApplicationResources.properties file. The code is somehow likes this below:

Locale locale = (Locale) session.getAttribute(Action.LOCALE_KEY);
MessageResources messages = servlet.getResources();
String message = getMessage(locale,"important.message");

---> cannot resolve the object servlet and function getMessage().

how to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.
thungrac02

Mick Barry

try:

MessageResources messages = Resource.getResources(request);
String message = messages.getMessage(locale,"important.message");

thungrac02

ASKER

Hi objects!
What are libraries must be imported?

Mick Barry

org.apache.struts.util.MessageResources
org.apache.struts.validator.Resources

thungrac02

ASKER

It still cannot resolve Resource.

thungrac02

ASKER

In a JSP file, we cannot get a string in ApplicationResources.properties file???

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thungrac02

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Hi objects!

I found that if I want Resources.getResources(request) takes effect, my file must extends Action class: public class TestAction extends Action {...}

so in a JSP file we cannot get a String from ApplicationResources.properties file, unfortunately.

Mick Barry

> I found that if I want Resources.getResources(request) takes effect, my file must extends Action class

why?

thungrac02

ASKER

Because getResources() is a method of Class Action.
My solution is: create a .java file

import com.ibm.ett.util.struts.RecordAction;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import org.apache.struts.util.MessageResources;
import java.util.Locale;

public class Properties extends RecordAction {
HttpServletRequest request = null;
public String getMessage(String key) {
MessageResources messages = getResources(request);
String message = messages.getMessage(key);
return message;
}
public String getMessage(Locale locale, String key) {
MessageResources messages = getResources(request);
String message = messages.getMessage(locale, key);
return message;
}
public Properties(HttpServletRequest request){
this.request = request;
}
}

then in my JSP file, I can get a String from ApplicationResources.properties file:

Properties properties = new Properties(request);
String foreTitle = properties.getMessage("forTitle.reportB11");

and it works well.

Mick Barry

> Because getResources() is a method of Class Action.

It is but thats not the method I used above :)
I used the getResources() method in the Resouces class.