Struts question - message-resources

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to do someting which should be pretty straight forward, but can't figure it out. In my application.properties file I have a setting. (DEBUG = true). I can spit this value out in my jsp easy enough using
<bean:message key="DEBUG"/>
But what I want to do is be able to decide in the jsp (using some logic) if the flag is set to true, then show some hyperlinks (for debugging purposes).
What I kinda want to do is this (i know this doesnt work)....
<logic:equal name="message?" property="DEBUG" value="true">
<p>debug mode</p>
     .. print some stuff
</logic:equal>
Obviously I'm not getting a handle to a bean here & thats why it doesnt work. But is there a simple way to do this. I dont want to code this property into into a bean - there must be some way of doing it.
I was looking around on the web and found a site where somebody mentioned that a "messages" bean is created and put in the session. If this is true then I could possibly get the above syntax to work, but I dont know how to get the name of the bean - (message doesnt work)
Any help would be greatly appeciated
Paul

Answer 1

I don't think the logic tags are tied into struts like the bean and html tags. The only way I know of is to get the message resources the hard way...
<%
MessageResources mr = (MessageResources)application.getAttribute(Globals.MESSAGES_KEY);
Locale locale = (Locale)session.getAttribute(Globals.LOCALE_KEY);
pageContext.setAttribute("DEBUG", mr.getMessage(locale, "DEBUG"));
%>
<logic:equals name="DEBUG" value="true">
That should work, I think.