Juergen Donnerstag wrote:
I'm all for making things easier for the user.
Perhaps Wicket could have something like this:
<span wicket:id="message:myLabelHere"></span>
I'm not sure this makes sense. wicket:id is not a text to be displayed
anywhere. It is a name which identifies a component. It definitely
won't work.
Actually, maybe this is not the solution but a way to specify i18n
message keys directly in the html through a wicket tag would be VERY
handy. Now, in a project I'm working on, for a i18n input form, half of
the form elements are i18n labels that I add to the form in java code.
Instead of add(new I18nLabel("lbl", "hello.mesage")) and <span
wicket:id="lbl" /> it would be more handy to have 'something like' <span
wicket:message="hello.message" ></span> or <wicket:message
key="hello.message" />, w/o poluting java code with i18n keys if it's
not necessary (like when you need to compose complex i18n messages
which would be done from the code).
Just a thought :-) (or maybe I am too intoxicated with
Struts/Webwork/SpringMVC :-D. I am trying to get rid of it you know.)
Even better would be that it would recognize the message:label anywhere in
the HTML. So for example, you could have:
<input type="submit" value="message:label.submit" />
That I think is possible. Acutally you can do it today already without
any changes to the core. You need to develop a IMarkupFilter and
append it to the list of existing ones invoked by MarkupFilter.
However you won't be able to handle "message: ...." within a tag body;
only tag attributes. How does Tapestry do it for body text?
An other option would be to run a kind of text based (not xml based)
pre-processor (like we do merging of inherited markup) prior to adding
the markup to the cache.
How likely is it that you'll find "message:" and it is not intended to
be a i18n text? How to escape it?
Lets say your message must contain a reference some other data, e.g.
"...${price}...". That won't be possible either. Only simple text. As
AttributeModifier is already able to handle it, "message:.." would be
for easy and straight forward replacements only, and AttributeModifer
to cover everything else.
Ah, and of course you loose preview capabilities, as the designer
won't the real message, he'd see "message:..." only.
And it might not the perfekt solution for high-speed up, because of
the (little) performance penalties involved. For high-speed up you can
still have myPage_en.html; myPage_nl.html etc may which as well cover
minor changes in the layout due to labels being of differents length;
right-to-left languages etc.
Juergen
On 11/8/05, Andrew Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In my app I never hard-code text so I'm constantly adding Labels to my
pages. I was wondering if it would make sense to have a shortcut, similar
to how Tapestry does it, for dsplaying localization messages. In Tapestry,
you can do this: title="message:page-title", where page-title is the lookup
into the property file.
Perhaps Wicket could have something like this:
<span wicket:id="message:myLabelHere"></span>
Even better would be that it would recognize the message:label anywhere in
the HTML. So for example, you could have:
<input type="submit" value="message:label.submit" />
Thoughts?
--Andrew
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