[STR-2913] Message tags to expose count of messages

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.6
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: Tag Libraries
• Assignee: Paul Benedict
• Reporter: Denis Pasek
• Created: 13/Jul/06 20:21
• Updated: 06/Jun/08 06:26
• Resolved: 06/Jun/08 06:22

Description

One nice enhancement of the Struts' html:errors and html:messages would be that while generating the defined header or footer the number of available messages are used as message arguments. This would facialate a header like "There are 3 error messages" or "There is 1 error message" using a message pattern like this:
errors.header=There are

{0}

error

{0,choice,1#message|1<messages}

.
This enhancement should be totally backward compatible since it's currently not possible to add arguments to headers and footers so nobody should have reserverd argument 0 for something.