Field Detail

• locale

  protected Locale locale

  The language and country information parsed from the request's Accept-Language header. Reset on each request.

Constructor Detail

• LocalizationTool

  public LocalizationTool()

  Creates a new instance. Used by PullService.

Method Detail

• get

  public String get(String key)

  Performs text lookups for localization.

  Assuming there is a instance of this class with a HTTP request set in your template's context named l10n, the VTL $l10n.HELLO would render to hello for English requests and hola in Spanish (depending on the value of the HTTP request's Accept-Language header).

  Parameters:

  key - The identifier for the localized text to retrieve.

  Returns:

  The localized text.

• getLocale

  public Locale getLocale()

  Gets the current locale.

  Returns:

  The locale currently in use.

• getBundleName

  protected String getBundleName(Object data)

  The return value of this method is used to set the name of the bundle used by this tool. Useful as a hook for using a different bundle than specified in your LocalizationService configuration.

  Parameters:

  data - The inputs passed from init(Object). (ignored by this implementation).

  Returns:

  the name of the bundle to use

• format

  public String format(String key,
              Object... args)

  Formats a localized value using the provided objects.

  Parameters:

  key - The identifier for the localized text to retrieve,

  args - The objects to use as {0}, {1}, etc. when formatting the localized text.

  Returns:

  Formatted localized text.

• init

  public void init(Object data)

  Sets the request to get the Accept-Language header from (reset on each request).

  Specified by:

  init in interface ApplicationTool

  Parameters:

  data - initialization data

• refresh

  public void refresh()

  No-op.

  Specified by:

  refresh in interface ApplicationTool