Re: Aw: Re: User's language in URL

Hi Ute

sorry for the late reply. Thanks for sharing your implementation, I 
appreciate it!
I am pretty sure that I will go for the Apache rewrite approach, but 
it's good to have this solution as a fallback ;-).
Kind regards,
Florian


On 1/20/26 11:26 AM, Ute Kaiser wrote:
> Hi Florian,
>
> my Interceptor to get language from URL https://myURL/myApp/<de/en>/myAction.xxx
>
> package whatever.your.project;
> import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
> import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
> import org.apache.struts2.ActionContext;
> import org.apache.struts2.ActionInvocation;
> import org.apache.struts2.interceptor.Interceptor;
> import org.apache.struts2.ServletActionContext;
> import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
> import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpSession;
> import java.util.Locale;
> /**
>   * Extract language (de or en) from request und set struts constant WW_TRANS_I18N_LOCALE.
>   * @param ActionInvocation invocation
>   * @return String invocation.invoke()
>   */
> public class LocaleInterceptor implements Interceptor
> {
> 	private Log log = LogFactory.getLog ( getClass () );
> 	@Override
> 	public void init() {}
> 	@Override
> 	public void destroy() {}
> 	@Override
> 	public String intercept(ActionInvocation invocation) throws Exception
> 	{
> 		HttpServletRequest request = ServletActionContext.getRequest();
> 		HttpSession session = request.getSession();
> 		//extract language from URL  /en/... or /de/... and set Locale. Default englisch
> 		String uri = request.getRequestURI();
> 		Locale myLocale = uri.contains("/de/") ? Locale.GERMANY : Locale.US;
> 		session.setAttribute("WW_TRANS_I18N_LOCALE", myLocale);
> 		// additionally for problems with a night batch job
> 		ActionContext.getContext().withLocale(myLocale);
> 		log.debug("Executing my LanguageGetterSetter: myLocale= " + myLocale.toString());
> 		return invocation.invoke();
> 	}
> }
>
> struts.xml:
> 	<constant name="struts.enable.SlashesInActionNames" value="true"/>
> 	<constant name="struts.mapper.alwaysSelectFullNamespace" value="false"/>
> 	<package name="myApp" extends="struts-default">
> 		...
> 		<interceptors>
> 			<interceptor name="LocaleInterceptor" class="whatever.your.project.LocaleInterceptor" />
> 			<interceptor-stack name="myStack">
> 				<interceptor-ref name="LocaleInterceptor" />
> 				<interceptor-ref name="defaultStack">
> 		...
> 		<action name="{lang}/MyAction" class="whatever.your.project.MyAction" method="execute">
> 		...
>
> MyAction.java:
> @Namespace("/{lang}")
> public final class MyAction extends ...
>
> That was enough to get the language specific resource properties.
> It was my first struts2/7 application, migrating from struts1, so there might be better solutions.
> It worked only with the namespace.
>
> In some jsp, I needed explicitly the language:
> <s:set var="sprache" value="#attr['locale'].language.toUpperCase()"/> //sprache=German for language
>
> And to add more complexity, I needed some language specific fields stored in database (e.g. descriptionDE or descriptionEN) instead of resource properties.
> <s:myproperty value="something.description" ...
> public class MypropertyTag extends PropertyTag {
> 	public void setValue(String value) {
> 		String sprache = ActionContext.getContext().getLocale().getLanguage().toUpperCase();
> 		super.setValue(value + sprache);
> 	}
> }
> I copied struts-tags.tld into my project and added the tag myproperty (mostly as a copy of the tag property).
>
> Kind regards Ute
> (inconsistency may be caused by hiding my application names)
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