[Opensource] If not logged in users want to set their Locale

[Lirian Ostrovica]

Mike,
The fact remains, that even if I created sessions for them, I still needed a
cookie in order to remember their
language of choice the next time they come back.

So, adding cookies as one of the "scopes" where Ex. would look for the users
Locale would be nice.
(I saw that Barracuda framework does that)

thanks Mike for the ideas,

Lirian




Mike Traum wrote:

> I see now. I assume you realize that the amount of memory should be
> insignificant unless your site is handling a HUGE (minimum of 1000's of
> simultaneous users) number of visitors.
>
> That being said, you could modify struts to achieve this, but I would have
> to guess that would be a bad way to go. Possibly a better way would be to
> use jakarta's I18N Tag Library
> (http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/i18n-doc/intro.html). As far as I
> know, it doesn't have ANY built in mechanish for keeping track of the
> current user's locale. So, you could:
> - set a cookie when a locale is chosen
> - retrieve the cookie on every page
> - set the locale for the I18N taglib using <i18n:locale>
> - use the <i18n:bundle> to display messages
>
> hth,
> mike
>
>      -----Original Message-----
>      From: Lirian Ostrovica [mailto:lirian.ostrovica at senecac.on.ca]
>      Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 8:16 AM
>      To: opensource at jcorporate.com
>      Subject: Re: [Opensource] If not logged in users want to set their
>      Locale
>
>
>      Hi Mike,
>      I'm afraid you did not understand me (or I was not clear).
>      I do not want to create a user session only for the sake of i18n.
>
>      A number of visitors of a site, can come as anonymous (not
>      logged in). They
>      will browse throw the pages that they can, and then simply leave.
>      It is quite normal that the number of such visitors be
>      well compared, or even
>      bigger than the number of 'logged in' ones.
>      In such a case, creating  sessions for anonymous visitors
>      will be a real waste
>      of memory.
>
>      That's why, as I said, the solution are cookies, with some
>      sort of URL
>      rewriting as a backup.
>      I have seen this recently discusses in Struts user list too.
>
>      Lirian
>
>
>
>      Mike Traum wrote:
>
>      > We do it here by setting the session attribute
>      "expresso.LOCALE", the same
>      > one that expresso uses. Works great!
>      >
>      > Did you not want to use cookies? You have to have
>      something to remember
>      > state info if you want to use Struts/Expresso-sytle
>      i18n. In this case, the
>      > session is used - which gives you the option of using
>      cookies or the
>      > jsession querystring parameter.
>      >
>      > mike
>      >
>      >      -----Original Message-----
>      >      From: Lirian Ostrovica
> [mailto:lirian.ostrovica at senecac.on.ca]
> >      Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 1:45 PM
> >      To: opensource at jcorporate.com
> >      Subject: [Opensource] If not logged in users want to set
> >      their Locale
> >
> >
> >      Hi,
> >
> >      If a not logged in (and no session) user wants to get, let
> >      say, the French
> >      version of your i18n-alized web site, you have to send him
> >      a cookie, and/or
> >      provide some kind of your own URL rewriting.
> >      This because the user Locales can only be saved in user
> >      preferences (Expresso)
> >      or in user session (Expresso & Struts).
> >
> >      Has someone come across this before ?
> >
> >      Lirian
> >
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