[WG: I18N & L10N] Velocity and internationalization

[Jim Eng]

The most common way I've seen this done is to get the fully formatted  
string from the ResourceLoader in the Java code and pass it into the  
template as a simple string variable, but it would also work to pass  
an array to getFormattedMessage() from the template, as Beth suggests.

Jim



On Sep 17, 2009, at 9:14 AM, Beth Kirschner wrote:

> Since you can easily call java methods from within velocity
> (ResourceLoader.getString() is frequently used within velocity
> templates, the real question is how to pass an array argument (used by
> getFormattedMessage). Depending on where you get your arguments from,
> you can pass the argument array to the velocity template by setting a
> context variable ( context.put( "variable-name", argArray) ) or create
> the array within the template itself (http://velocity.apache.org/engine/devel/developer-guide.html#objectscreatedinthetemplate
> ).
>
> Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried either method -- but let me know
> if you find something that works and I'll add it to the Best Practices
> page.
>
> - Beth
>
> On Sep 16, 2009, at 5:07 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I was reading
>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/I18N/Best+Practices+for+Internationalized+Tools+in+Sakai
>> and I can't find something I'd like to know. I don't know much about
>> Velocity and
>> org.sakaiproject.util.ResourceLoader.getFormattedMessage(),
>> so this may be easy or hard to answer.
>>
>> I would like to know how
>> org.sakaiproject.util.ResourceLoader.getFormattedMessage() could be
>> used
>> with Velocity.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jean-Francois
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