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Variable substitution JSF Resource Bundle property file
I'm slightly aghast at the inability to reference the value of other property keys in the message bundle.
Although I see how easy to write my own rubbish handler[0] that can do what I want in a custom component, that would leave expressions in templates calling the message bundle still using the default JSF implementation.
Is it possible to override the default JSF handling of the message bundle?
[0] Or better, to use code referenced in one of the answers to the above question
https://code.google.com/p/reflectiveresourcebundle/
You can provide the fully qualified name of a concrete ResourceBundle implementation as "base name" instead of alone the path and filename of the properties files.
E.g.
public class YourCustomResourceBundle extends ResourceBundle {
// ...
}
which can be registered as follows
<application>
<resource-bundle>
<base-name>com.example.YourCustomResourceBundle</base-name>
<var>text</var>
</resource-bundle>
</application>
or declared on a per-view/template basis as follows
<f:loadBundle baseName="com.example.YourCustomResourceBundle" var="text" />
Here are several related questions/answers which contain some concrete code which you could use as a kickoff example:
How to remove the surrounding ??? when message is not found in bundle
internationalization in JSF with ResourceBundle entries which are loaded from database
i18n with UTF-8 encoded properties files in JSF 2.0 appliaction
Everything is possible for those who try. The question is not whether it is is possible but should you do it. And the answer to that question is: probably not.
Referencing other message in a message bundle means you want to build a compound message. So you can re-use part of the message many times just to save small fraction of the disk space or small fraction of development time.
If that is the case, I have a message for you. What you plan to do is called a concatenation and it is the second most common I18n defect. And its implications are as bad as those of hardcoded strings.
Why? Because target languages do not follow the English grammar rules. First, it is common need to re-order the sentence while translating. This might be easy to fix by using (numbered or named) placeholders. On the other hand though, the translation might differ depending on the context. That is, it might need to be translated in totally other way, or simply the word endings might need to be different depending on a grammar case, mood or gender.
My advice is, do not use such shortcuts, it will create more problems than it fixes.
Now you should know why "those stupid Romans" didn't implement it like this: it is against I18n best practices.
Related
I have a following situation: in some of my i18n property files there are properties containing a special word:
prop.example=specialword just for example
prop.test=just for test specialword
I want to have a possibility of having a property somewhere in my Config.groovy that would contain a specific value for this specialword so that if I specify:
specialword=Value of special word
in a Config.groovy then I want my i18n properties to be resolved like:
prop.example=Value of special word just for example
prop.test=just for test Value of special word
for that purpose, when building the project, I want to access property files in order to look for occurences of specialword and to replace them with value of specialwordvalue from Config.groovy.
Is that possible somehow? Perhaps, someone faced similar situation? I would really appreciate any help.
Thanks, Cheers
Instead of trying to change the way the properties are compiled, you would be better off passing the special value as an argument to your message code (as discussed in the comments to your question).
For instance:
<g:message code="my.key.code" args="[someVariableWithAValueFromConfig]" />
If your message code doesn't use the argument it will simply be ignored. This seems like the best approach to the problem you are trying to solve.
My Grails (2.4.2) app was created with a bunch of "default/standard" resource bundles:
myapp/
grails-app/
i18n/
messages.properties
messages_fr.properties
I would now like to create my own "custom" resource bundle, that is, define properties in a file outside of these standard messages*.properties files that myapp was created with.
According to the i18n documentation, all bundles need to be prefixed with messages and suffixed .properties. So I added two new props files, one for English and one for French:
myapp/
grails-app/
i18n/
messages.properties
messages_fr.properties
messages_myapp.properties
messages_myapp_fr.properties
For one, I'm not 100% sure I'm interpreting the docs correctly. So if anything about my 2 new props files jumps out at you as being incorrect, please start by letting me know!
Having said that, in all the example from those docs, I don't see where you specify the bundle to use. All of the examples look like this:
<g:message code="fizz.buzz.foo" />
But what if I have a fizz.buzz.foo property defined in both messages_blah.properties and messages_bar.properties?
So I ask: How do I add my own custom resource bundles, and how do I properly refer to them from inside a GSP?
To answer your question you have to understand what Grails (well, Spring really) is doing to accomplish this.
You are on the right path with the multiple files. What you have outlined there matches the documentation and will work.
However, under the covers what is really being done is they are being combined into a single bundle (per language). So there is no need to tell Grails/Spring which bundle to use.
Finally, what happens when the same key is defined multiple times? The first one matched wins. I seem to recall that the order in which the bundles are combined is in file name order, though you should be able to test this pretty quickly.
Hope this helps, and best of luck!
I've got a list of 2000+, almost the same, 'NSString' attributes I need to "import" in my .xcdatamodel-file.
If I could open the xcdatamodel-file using an XML-like-text-editor, like a .plist-file, I can add all of my attributes, but I can't find a way how.
I managed to programmaticly create the attributes (using this tutorial), but then I can't set or fetch the attribute's data.
The list should look like:
["str_1_1"],["str_1_2"],["str_1_3"],...,["str_49_4"],["str_49_5"],...
Is there a way to programmaticly add attributes / set and fetch data from attributes?
OR
Is there a way to staticly add all possible attributes without clicking the +button over 2000 times?
You can just open the model file in any text editor. If you have the file compatibility for the file set to Xcode 4 or higher, it's even easy to edit.
The model Foo.xcdatamodel is actually a directory. Inside that is a file named contents, which is nicely formatted, easily readable XML. Edit that. A string attribute will look something like:
<attribute name="stringAttribute" optional="YES" attributeType="String" syncable="YES"/>
Add one or two string attributes in Xcode and then duplicate/edit them as needed.
A couple of notes:
Obviously, it's your job to get the syntax right. This is not documented but also not hard to figure out. If you end up with a broken model file that won't compile, you got something wrong.
It's probably a good idea to quit Xcode first. It might not freak out if you edit the model file while it's running, but you never know.
Having 2000+ string attributes is frankly terrifying and suggests an extremely bad data model. Before editing the model and adding all of these, please carefully consider whether there's a less extreme solution.
I am converting DITA to XLIFF. In my technical solution I have to specialize (modify) xliff-core-1.2-strict.xsd to accommodate few DITA attributes. It means some attributes will go along with "g" tag. For Example:
<g id="00001" newAtt="this is new attribute" xid="009"/>
From the translation side I am not sure how it will work, so my questions:
Is it general practice that LSPs will get different flavor of XLIFF XSDs from different companies?
And is it possible for them to use it in their XLIFF editor by updating updated XLIFF XSD? I tried to explore “Transolution” but did not find any place where to place modified XSD.
Please let me know if you have any thought on this.
Thanks.
Here are my answers to your two questions:
I work for an LSP and I've seen all sorts and flavors of Xliff. Most of them try to stick to OASIS 1.2 transitional schema. Some of TMS/CAT producers added their own extensions. These producers normally provide an XSD so you can validate their Xliffs by adding that XSD to OASIS schema; e.g. SDL extensions to 1.2. When I'm customizing Xliff for a client, I normally do namespaces and provide a simple additional XSD; e.g.:
<trans-unit id="0" translate="yes" resname="msg_foo">
<superduper:uri>http://foo.bar/iJKLM9</superduper:uri>
<source>This is supposed to be a <superduper:g id="00001" newAtt="this is new attribute" xid="009"/> example.</source>
<target state="new"></target>
</trans-unit>
Most of the TMS/CAT tools are very basic (and closed) when it comes to their Xliff filters (or any of their filters for that matter) and I'm sorta kinda sure that they ignore your customized XSD.
Transolution is a very nice tool and my favorite Open Source translation tool. Unfortunately it's been long abandoned and has plenty of defects and shortcomings.
Anyway, if you provide a sample file, I can tell you what happens to non-conforming tags when it's imported into one of common, major CAT tools.
One final note; <g> seems to be retired in Xliff 2.0.
Forget about Transolution for one thing. I would try it with Trados, MemoQ or MemSource. Those are some of the big tools used in the translation business.
Personally I never got an XLIFF with a XSD, nor do I think Trados can handle it.
What do you need to change in the XLIFF?
Intro:
I'm trying out LESS in an asp.net mvc environment.
I use dotless for server side processing (and I wouldn't want to use client side processing especially afer publishing the complete project).
I have to apply a design where there are different color schemes depending on different things (e.g. time of the day).
Less felt very powerful in this case as designing a parameterized css and only changing like 10 variables at the beginning of the file for every theme was really uplifting.
Problem:
But I would need to somehow change the color themes from an outside parameter.
Ideas:
First I thought that an URL parameter like style.less?theme=fuschia would be good, but I found no way to parse something like this.
Then I thought that making a very short blue.less, green.less, orange.less consisting only declared color variables, and including the main.less in every one of them would be a solid solution.
I had no chance to try out the second solution, but I thought this would be a good time to ask for advice on the most robust way of doing this.
The problem again is: I want to control some things in my less file from the outside.
Yes you can (because I implemented that feature for exactly that reason).
Dotless supports parameters from the outside via the querystring parameter.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.less?foo=bar" />
Will let you use the following less:
#foo = bar;
The parameter injection code is very simple. it just prepends the variable declarations to your normal less file, so anything that comes as a querystring parameter will follow the above syntax.
The code in question is very simple: https://github.com/dotless/dotless/blob/master/src/dotless.Core/Engine/ParameterDecorator.cs
AFAIK, you cannot pass parameters for dotnetless to use to do the compile.
As a suggestion, why not just call different less files? This would be fairly easy to do by using a Viewbag property.
To make the different less ones, You first create a less file with each set of colors in them. Then you import your base css file. dotnetless will merge the color definations in the parent file with the usages in the base file. So you have something like -
#baseGray: #ddd;
#baseGrayDark: darken(#baseGray, 15%);
#baseGrayLight: lighten(#baseGray, 10%);
#import "baseCss.less";
I just tested this on and MVC3 project and it works.