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externalized strings : conver to 'eclipse mechanism' [message #335361]

Fri, 03 April 2009 13:18

Eclipse User

Hi

is there a recommended way to change already externalized strings to use
the 'eclipse mechanism' (i.e. Messages extends NLS ...) rather than the
default one ?

I think that the "eclipse mechanism" is better due to not having
literals left in code (hence far fewer //$NON-NLS-1$) and easy junit
testability for broken keys.

cheers
Edoardo

Re: externalized strings : conver to 'eclipse mechanism' [message #335362 is a reply to message #335361]

Fri, 03 April 2009 13:51

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com

On 4/3/2009 1:18 PM, Edoardo Comar wrote:
> Hi
>
> is there a recommended way to change already externalized strings to use
> the 'eclipse mechanism' (i.e. Messages extends NLS ...) rather than the
> default one ?
>
> I think that the "eclipse mechanism" is better due to not having
> literals left in code (hence far fewer //$NON-NLS-1$) and easy junit
> testability for broken keys.

A follow-up question: why is the default in the Externalize Strings
wizard still to NOT use the "Eclipse mechanism" (at least as of 3.4.2)?
Is there a bug report about that already?

Eric

Re: externalized strings : conver to 'eclipse mechanism' [message #335379 is a reply to message #335362]

Sun, 05 April 2009 06:12

Eclipse User

Eric Rizzo wrote:
> On 4/3/2009 1:18 PM, Edoardo Comar wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> is there a recommended way to change already externalized strings to use
>> the 'eclipse mechanism' (i.e. Messages extends NLS ...) rather than the
>> default one ?
>>
>> I think that the "eclipse mechanism" is better due to not having
>> literals left in code (hence far fewer //$NON-NLS-1$) and easy junit
>> testability for broken keys.
>
> A follow-up question: why is the default in the Externalize Strings
> wizard still to NOT use the "Eclipse mechanism" (at least as of
> 3.4.2)? Is there a bug report about that already?
It should definitely remember your last choice which it currently
doesn't and given we already test whether org.eclipse.osgi is on the
build path we could also change the default. Can you file a bug against
JDT UI?

Thanks,

Dani
>
> Eric

Re: externalized strings : conver to 'eclipse mechanism' [message #335393 is a reply to message #335361]

Mon, 06 April 2009 06:11

Eclipse User

Edoardo Comar wrote:
> Hi
>
> is there a recommended way to change already externalized strings to
> use the 'eclipse mechanism' (i.e. Messages extends NLS ...) rather
> than the default one ?
When this was introduced we had a tool to convert to the new Eclipse
mechanism:
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-core/downloads/tools /message_bundles/com.ibm.zrh.eclipse.nls_1.0.0.zip

This might no longer work with latest versions of Eclipse but it also
contains the source.

Dani
>
> I think that the "eclipse mechanism" is better due to not having
> literals left in code (hence far fewer //$NON-NLS-1$) and easy junit
> testability for broken keys.
>
> cheers
> Edoardo

Re: externalized strings : conver to 'eclipse mechanism' [message #335413 is a reply to message #335379]

Mon, 06 April 2009 16:16

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com

On 4/5/2009 6:12 AM, Daniel Megert wrote:
> Eric Rizzo wrote:
>> A follow-up question: why is the default in the Externalize Strings
>> wizard still to NOT use the "Eclipse mechanism" (at least as of
>> 3.4.2)? Is there a bug report about that already?
> It should definitely remember your last choice which it currently
> doesn't and given we already test whether org.eclipse.osgi is on the
> build path we could also change the default. Can you file a bug against
> JDT UI?

Done:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=271375

I might even find time to submit a patch for it later this week, but no
promises.

Eric

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