Renderer Internationalization

messageLocator option to selfRender()

• a function
• given a key and other args, returns a message: function(key, args) -> message
• args can be used to format a message string - will be passed to fluid.formatMessage()
• the first param can be an array of keys, in which case you'll get back an array of strings
• NOTE This is only used for a UIMessage!!

fluid.messageLocator() framework function

• will build the function that can be passed as an option to selfRender()
• pass it your key/strings mapping object

messageSource option to selfRender()

• form used in tests: {type: "data", messages: messageBase} (where messageBase is the key/strings mapping)
• if type is "data" and there no url field, renderer will build a messageLocator with the messageBase using fluid.messageLocator()
• if type is "data" and there is an url, nothing happens yet. Plan is to fetch via AJAX
• if type is not "data", nothing happens.

fluid.parseJavaProperties(text) in the Renderer

• will convert a textual representation of a .properties file in the classic Java properties file format into an equivalent JSON structure, in case a .properties happens to be what you already have.
• returned structure suitable for passing to fluid.messageLocator() to build a message locator for you

Using a UIMessage

• component tree key is messagekey, e.g.

  {
    ID: "myKey",
    messagekey: "errMsg.mandarin"
  }
  

• the messagekey is passed as the first parameter to the messageLocator function
• messagekey can be an array - not sure what that does?