RE: message-resources

[Wendy Smoak <We...@asu.edu>]

Dries Plessers [mailto:aplessers@pandora.be] wrote:
> I have a file (countries.properties) which contain all value 
> and representations. 
> e.g.: 
> AD=ANDORRA
> AG=ANTIGUA
> AM=ARMENIA
> How can use this resource file to create a html:select 
> where the value equals the countryname and the representation 
> the 2letters within the struts framework ?

Properties implements Map, so if you do the usual to read in a
.properties file, along the lines of...
   ClassLoader cl = MyAction.class.getClassLoader();
   Properties props = new Properties();
   InputStream input = cl.getResourceAsStream( "countries.properties" );
   props.load( props ) ;

Then you should be able to use the 'props' object with the <html:select>
tag.  Not that I've tried it, but it seems like it should work.

Since countries will probably not change during runtime, you could do
this in a ContextListener and put the Map in Application scope.  That
way it'll be there for everyone who needs it.

-- 
Wendy Smoak
Applications Systems Analyst, Sr.
Arizona State University, PA, IRM 

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