gettext-commons Resource bundle not found

Question

I'm working to translate my desktop java application ( on windows 10 OS ), so I'm using gettext-common from http://code.google.com/p/gettext-commons

I have following the tutorial providing by gettext-common : https://code.google.com/archive/p/gettext-commons/wikis/Tutorial.wiki

by following all steps I get create Messages_fr.class,Messages_en.class the problem is in gettext-common they have Messages_en.properties not .class, when I create Messages_en.properties ( manually ) it works! and I can not do it manually it will take forever (I have more than 700 sentences )

JAVA code :

static I18n i18n = I18nFactory.getI18n(ParserTest.class,
            "resources.messages");

    public static void main(String args[]) {

        for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
            if (i == 0) {
                print("First run");
            } else {
                print("Second run");
                i18n.setLocale(Locale.FRANCE);
            }

            print("Current locale: " + i18n.getLocale());

            print(i18n
                    .tr("This text is marked for translation and is translated"));

            String mark = i18n
                    .marktr("This text is marked for translation but not translated");
            print(mark);
            print(i18n.tr(mark));

            mark = i18n.tr("This is the {0}. text to be translated",
                    "chat (noun)");
            print(mark);

            mark = i18n.tr("This is the {0}. text to be translated",
                    "chat (verb)");
            print(mark);

            print(i18n.tr("chat (noun)"));
            print(i18n.tr("chat (verb)"));

            print("");
        }

    }

    private static void print(String text) {
        System.out.println(text);
    }

I have a problem with this:

Problem 1: My message files are located under resources/Messages directory. It contains only 2 files: messages_en.class and messages_fr.class not messages_fr.properties and messages_en.properties.

If I try to run the above code I'm getting a warning: "ResourceBundle [messages] ,this because there is no .properties files

Answer 1

I decide to work with PropertyResourceBundle so I followed all steps and I jump msgfmt ( I'm not going to create .class ) so I use msgcat with --properties-output option to create .properties instead of .class

commend:

msgcat --properties-output msgs/fr.po -o src/com/i18n/Messages_fr.properties

or create shell script po2pr.sh (./po2pr.sh fr )

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
   echo "Please specify which language_country suffix(es) you want"
   exit 1
fi

for lang in $*
do
  echo "Creating .properties template file for $lang"

  msgcat --properties-output msgs/${lang}.po -o src/com/i18n/Messages_${lang}.properties
 msgs/messages.pot
done

java code :

public class I {

    private static I18n getI18n() {
        I18n getI18n = I18nFactory.getI18n(I.class, "i18n.Messages");
        Locale Locale = new Locale("fr");
        getI18n.setLocale(Locale);
        return getI18n;
    }

    public static String tr(String str) {
        return getI18n().tr(str);
    }

    public static String tr(String text, Object o1) {
        return getI18n().tr(text, o1);
    }

    public static String tr(String text, Object o1, Object o2) {
        return getI18n().tr(text, o1, o2);
    }

    public static String tr(String text, Object o1, Object o2, Object o3) {
        return getI18n().tr(text, o1, o2, o3);
    }

    public static String tr(String text, Object o1, Object o2, Object o3,
            Object o4) {
        return getI18n().tr(text, o1, o2, o3, o4);
    }

    public static String tr(String text, Object[] objects) {
        return getI18n().tr(text, objects);
    }

}

Note:

1-you have to create Messages_fr.properties

2- make sure that you create Resource bundle in hue level src.com.i18n.Messages