[VELTOOLS-51] Support for "non-resource" ActionMessage's introduced in Struts 1.2.7

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: VelocityStruts
• Assignee: Nathan Bubna
• Reporter: Niall Pemberton
• Created: 15/Oct/05 10:44
• Updated: 25/Jan/07 05:44
• Resolved: 15/Oct/05 11:14

Description

Struts 1.2.7 introduced "non-resource" ActionMessage's. Rather than the ActionMessage containing a key to a message in a resource bundle it contains the actual message itself.

• ActionMessage.isResource() returns false for "non-resource" messages.
• ActionMessage.getKey() returns the actual message for "non-resource" messages.

The main motivation for the Struts change were the previously ignored Commons Validator's "bundle" and "resource" attributes - now Struts resolves the message during validation using those attributes if specified - creating a "non-resource" ActionMessage. For this to work in Struts 1.2.7 - Commons Validator 1.1.4 is also required.

The way Velocity's tools are coded it should work anyway in most cases - but for completeness I'm attaching a patch.