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I'm developing a Java/Spring web application. The problem I'm currently facing is that I'd like to have message from message.resources shown as an attribute in an HTML.
<input type="submit" name="login" value="login" />
So instead of the hardcoded value "login" I need to the value of
<spring:message code="general.submit" /> as the value attribute of that input tag. As the pages are all xml, it's no option to nest tags like
<input type="submit" name="login" value="<spring:message code="general.submit" />" />
as it does not compile. I could, of course, read the value in the Java controller and use a JSTL variable to display the value, but I think it would be too hackish and complicated, especially for pages with large amount of submit buttons. Is there some kind of elegant way of accomplishing what I want to do?
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To use Spring's form tags in our web application, we need to include the below directive at the top of the JSP page. This form tag library comes bundled in spring-webmvc. jar and the library descriptor is called spring-form. tld.
The spring:message tag provides you with internationalization support using Spring's MessageSource concept. The MessageSource is an interface providing functionality for retrieving messages. It closely resembles JSTL's fmt:message -tag, however, the MessageSource classes can be integrated with the Spring context.
The commandName attribute is the most important attribute in the form tag, which specifies the model attribute name that contains a backing object and the properties of this object will be used to populate the generated form.
Use <spring:message> to store the value in a var, then reference that var using EL, e.g.
<spring:message code="general.submit" var="submitText"/>
<input type="submit" name="login" value="${submitText}" />
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