Re: Is MessageFormat supported?

Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 6:00:03 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> I'm trying to use MessageFormat in combination with FM's localization
> feature but I'm having some problems (which I won't go into at this time).
> My question is, are there features in FreeMarker (builtins, for example)
> that help with this and that may save me some effort? I don't see anything
> in the online manual, but maybe I'm missing something.

freemarker.ext.beans.ResourceBundleModel deals with this, AFAIR.
ResoureBundles should be wrapped into it automatically, so it's not
like you should know about this class. Just drop a ResourceBundle into
the data-model, then the resulting variable will be (copy-paste from
the JavaDoc):

A hash model that wraps a resource bundle. Makes it convenient to
store localized content in the data model. It also acts as a method
model that will take a resource key and arbitrary number of arguments
and will apply MessageFormat with arguments on the string represented
by the key.

Typical usages:

    * bundle.resourceKey will retrieve the object from resource bundle
      with key resourceKey

    * bundle("patternKey", arg1, arg2, arg3) will retrieve the string
      from resource bundle with key patternKey, and will use it as a
      pattern for MessageFormat with arguments arg1, arg2 and arg3


-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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