Supported Resource Bundles

What resource file types are supported by LRM?

The Lingoport Resource Manager supports the following file types:

• .json (with some restrictions for L10n purposes - See below for format of .json as resource bundles - Mostly JavaScript, and other programming languages)
• .msg (C, C++, ...)
• .po files
• .properties files (for instance, Java-type resources)
• .resx files (used in the .Net world)
• .rc (Delphi, ...)
• .rjs (for JavaScript)
• .rxml (for xml)
• .strings (Mobile iOS)
• strings.xml (Android)

See <HOME>/lingoport/lrm-server-x.y/samples for sample Project Definition files.

Lingoport Resource Manager Configuration

LRM creates projects using a Project Definition XML file that contains information about the resources and types for translation. Here is a typical .xml definition for projects with .properties files.

This will create a project called com.company.project in the group SVNFTP. The resource files are located in the /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/SVNFTP.com.company.project/workspace directory. The resources are targeting six different locales. The resource files to be translated are .properties files.

This is the LRM project name that will be created.

<project-name>com.company.project</project-name>

This is the LRM group name that the project will be under.

<group-name>SVNFTP</group-name>

This is the location of the resource files.

<top-level-dir>/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/SVNFTP.com.company.project/workspace</top-level-dir>

This is the locale to translate from

<default-locale>en_US</default-locale>

Here are the locales which will be translated into

 <target-locales>
   <locale>fr</locale>
   <locale>de_DE</locale>
   <locale>slv</locale>
   <locale>nob_NO_UNI</locale>
   <locale>zh_Hant</locale>
   <locale>ZHT_Hans</locale>
 </target-locales>

Look for .properties resource files.

<extension>properties</extension>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<lrmconf>
  <model-version>2.0.12</model-version>
  <project-name>com.company.project</project-name>
  <project-desc>This is a sample LRM Project definition file, configured to support Java properties files</project-desc>
  <!--group-name contains the group name that the LRM license is under-->
  <group-name>SVNFTP</group-name>
  <top-level-dir>/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/SVNFTP.com.company.project/workspace</top-level-dir>
  <detect-errors>
    <!--If set to '0' (false), then the 'missed translation' error will not be triggered-->
    <missed-trans-error>0</missed-trans-error>
    <parameter-mismatch-error>1</parameter-mismatch-error>
  </detect-errors>
  <pseudo-locale>eo</pseudo-locale>
  <default-locale>en_US</default-locale>
  <target-locales>
    <locale>fr</locale>
    <locale>de_DE</locale>
    <locale>slv</locale>
    <locale>nob_NO_UNI</locale>
    <locale>zh_Hant</locale>
    <locale>ZHT_Hans</locale>
  </target-locales>
    <resource-extension>
      <extension>properties</extension>
      <file-name-pattern>*_l_c_v</file-name-pattern>
      <!--If the base resource files use the file-name-pattern in their name -->
      <!--then set use-pattern-on-dflt-locale to 1, if not then set to 0-->
      <use-pattern-on-dflt-locale>1</use-pattern-on-dflt-locale>
      <file-location-pattern/>
      <use-location-pattern-on-dflt-locale>0</use-location-pattern-on-dflt-locale>
      <base-file-encoding>UTF-8</base-file-encoding>
      <localized-file-encoding>UTF-8</localized-file-encoding>
      <!--Default pattern for properties is '![CDATA[\{\d+\}|%[ds]]]'-->
      <parameter-regex-pattern><![CDATA[\{\w+\}|%[ds]]]></parameter-regex-pattern>
    </resource-extension>
  </resource-extensions>
</lrmconf>

What is resx files encoding?

.Net resx files must be UTF-8 encoded, as per the resx schema, Hence, on-boarding resx resource files with LRM must specify the UTF-8 encoding:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ekyft91f%28v=VS.90%29.aspx

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
    <xsd:schema id="root" xmlns="" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
<xsd:element name="data">
     <xsd:complexType>
           <xsd:sequence>
                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"
                    msdata:Ordinal="2" />
            </xsd:sequence>
                <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" />
                <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" />
                <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" />
      </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>

Why don't Bad iOS Comments Trigger Errors?

If an IOS file has a comment that is not ended properly, no error is thrown. For example, if a comment doesn't have an ending */, such as /*Bad comment no errors are found.

This is due to the formatting of iOS. This type of bad comments would typically be created on the base files.

Note key/value pairs are not effected. Noticed when LRM_RESEND tag was added, the info in the Changed Key values included LRM_RESEND.