Make error messages more specific (omnibus issue)

• Key: STR-786
• Type: Improvement
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Blocker
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David M. Karr
• Component/s: Core
• Affects Version/s: Nightly Build
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0

Environment

Operating System: other
Platform: Other

Description

When I'm trying to track through the Struts source code to find out where an
error message is being emitted, after I find the display string in the
properties files, I then have to search for the given key in the source code.
It would be very convenient if the key associated with that display string was
specific enough to be reasonably certain that it wouldn't occur hundreds of
times in unrelated places. Unfortunately, for several (most?) of these error
keys, that is not the case. A perfect example: "formBean". That's the error
code for "Error creating form bean of class {0}". From the ones I see near
"formBean" in the ActionResources.properties file, there are many keys that are
not specific at all.