LRM Properties Support

Naming Conventions

For optimum use of LRM, we strongly recommend that base files be named uniquely. If you have two files for instance, do not name them both resources.properties. Name them something different, like resources.properties and messages.properties

Properties files are used by applications written in many programming languages, such as Java. Java for instance has a full fledged standard infrastructure to handle resources (strings mostly) from properties files. Typically, an application will have many .properties base files located under different directories. The base file typically does not have a locale suffix as it serves as the default locale when resources are missing in another locale. See https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/environment/properties.html .

For a base file named resources.properties, the corresponding French file will be in the same directory and the locale will be added to the file name: resources_fr.properties.

For example, for a few locales, the directory structure and file names would be:

 messages.properties
 messages_de.properties
 messages_es.properties
 messages_fr.properties
 messages_ru.properties
 messages_zh.properties

The bold file is the base file (U.S. English in this instance) translated into German, Spanish, French, Russian, and Chinese.

Example of .properties

  byTheFollowingAdministrator= by the following administrator: {0}
  artifactChangeNotification.Ownership=the request for notification of any change to a {0} you own.
  firstLastName={0} {1}
  user.confirm.delete=Are you sure you want to delete {0}?\\n\\nTHERE IS NO UNDO for deleting Users.
  user.editor.save.error=<strong>The User could not be saved.</strong><br/>\
  Please correct the errors identified below and click one of the "Save" buttons.<br/>
  #
  # bind and validation errors
  #
  User.invalidValueError.name=User Name must be a valid email address.

Note:

• \ at the end of a string means the following line is part of that string, as in

  user.editor.save.error=<strong>The User could not be saved.</strong><br/>\
  Please correct the errors identified below and click one of the "Save" buttons.<br/>

• Parameters are typically numbers in braces, as in

 firstLastName={0} {1}

• Comments are specified with a # sign at the beginning of the line

 # bind and validation errors

Example of Project Definition File

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<lrmconf>
 <model-version>3.0.18</model-version>
 <project-name>statistic</project-name>
 <project-desc>Statistic project</project-desc>
 <group-name>fseng</group-name>
 <top-level-dir>/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/Lingoport.statistic/workspace</top-level-dir>
 <detect-errors>
   <missed-trans-error>0</missed-trans-error>
   <parameter-mismatch-error>1</parameter-mismatch-error>
 </detect-errors>
 <track-back-locale>br</track-back-locale>
 <pseudo-locale>eo</pseudo-locale>
 <target-locales>
   <locale>de</locale>
   <locale>es</locale>
   <locale>fr</locale>
   <locale>it</locale>
   <locale>ja</locale>
   <locale>ru</locale>
 </target-locales>
 <default-locale>en</default-locale>
 <resource-extensions>
   <resource-extension>
     <extension>properties</extension>
     <file-name-pattern>*_l_c_v</file-name-pattern>
     <use-pattern-on-dflt-locale>0</use-pattern-on-dflt-locale>
     <file-location-pattern/>
     <base-file-encoding>UTF-8</base-file-encoding>
     <localized-file-encoding>UTF-8</localized-file-encoding>
     <parameter-regex-pattern><![CDATA[\{\w+\}|\$\d*[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*([\.][A-Za-z_0-9]+)*|%[ds]]]></parameter-regex-pattern>
   </resource-extension>
 </resource-extensions>
 <dirset>
   <includes>
     <include-dir>**/**</include-dir>
   </includes>
   <excludes>
     <exclude-dir-file>**/log4j.properties</exclude-dir-file>
     <exclude-dir-file>**/*_eo.properties</exclude-dir-file>
     <exclude-dir-file>**/test/**/*.properties</exclude-dir-file>
   </excludes>
 </dirset>
 </lrmconf>