DynaActionForm initial values

[Ed Milic <ed...@hotmail.com>]

Hi,

I have been scratching my head wondering why you can only specify static 
initial values in a form bean definition in the struts-config.xml.  To 
illustrate:

<form-bean name="SomeForm" "org.apache.struts.validator.DynaActionForm">
    <form-property name="field1" type="java.lang.String" 
initial="someInitialValue"/>
</form-bean>

It would be nice from a localization standpoint to have the initial
value represent a key in a resource file (say the default MessageResources) 
and initialize the field based on this along with the user's locale.

I actually decided to implement this myself for the convenience it offers.  
I can provide the code changes (very minor ones at that) if anyone wants to 
add it to the struts code base.

Cheers,
Ed

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