On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 21:43 +0100, Christian Meder wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 03:00 +0000, Niall Pemberton wrote:
> > On 11/28/05, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On 11/27/05, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > A couple of questions I had on the resources API:
> > > >
> > > > 1) I was wondering why TimeZone is include in the Resources's content
> > > > read methods? Is there a use case, for example, for giving west coast
> > > > Americans a different message to east coast?
> > >
> > >
> > > Some of the format options for displaying times take a time zone parameter
> > > (so that it can be included in the emitted string). Simply pass null if
> > > it
> > > doesn't matter to you.
> >
> > I don't see any valid formats specified in java.text.MessageFormat
> > that take a TimeZone. Thats slightly irrelevant though since AFAIK
> > Commons Resources doesn't deal anywhere with message formats. My
> > understanding that happends after the resource has been retrieved,
> > something like....
> >
> > String msgResource = myResources.getString("foo.key", locale, null);
> > MessageFormat msgFormat = new MessageFormat(msgResource);
> > msgFormat.setLocale(locale);
> > String message = msgFormat.format(args);
> >
> > Have I got the wrong end of the stick on this? Struts MessageResources
> > does do the MessageFormat bit, but Commons Resources doesn't.
>
> Actually I just nuked my reply (still stuck on my laptop) which
> reiterated my concern from my mail a couple of days that
> MessageResources and the MessageFormat stuff is missing like you did.
> But I guess I found it: it's in Messages.
>
> So I guess it should be more along the line:
>
> Messages myMsgResources = new Messages(myResources);
> String message = myMsgResources.getMessage(locale, "foo.key", args);
>
> But there are some things which should get improved wrt Messages:
>
> * include all parametric replacement options like in Struts
> MessageResources (not only arg0 and [] args)
Following up to myself:
I just found the following in the log for Messages:
r142735 | dgraham | 2003-10-02 02:24:13 +0200 (Thu, 02 Oct 2003) | 8
lines
Changed paths:
M
/jakarta/commons/proper/resources/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/resources/Messages.java
M
/jakarta/commons/proper/resources/trunk/src/test/org/apache/commons/resources/MessagesTestCase.java
Removed Messages methods that provided 2-4 replacement
arguments that were carried over from Struts. This makes
the interface easier to understand and the implementation
simpler. The methods that are left provide for 0, 1, or an
array of replacement arguments.
I happen to disagree with the reasoning but I wanted to put this up for
discussion.
> * the order of locale and key is reversed compared to Resources, it's
> (locale, key); Resources is (key, locale)
> * MessageFormat isn't cached as it is in Struts MessageResources
> * setLocale isn't called on the used MessageFormat instances
> * the TimeZone parameter isn't used like in the rest of
> commons-resources
>
> If nobody objects I'll whip up patches for the above points.
>
> Greetings,
>
>
> Christian
>
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