Take 3. Change the factory application to:

LiftRules.resourceBundleFactories.toList.find(_.isDefinedAt(locale)).toList.map(_.apply(locale))

Derek

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Derek Chen-Becker
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Tim, I just noticed that the PF type should be:
>
> type ResourceBundleFactoryPF =
> PartialFunction[(String,Locale),Box[ResourceBundle]]
>
> The reason we wanted to use PFs was to allow specialization for a specific
> language. I'm wondering whether the string parameter is really necessary,
> since really that's intended to look up a bundle name via
> ResourceBundle.getBundle. That would change the proposed code to:
>
> type ResourceBundleFactoryPF = PartialFunction[Locale,Box[ResourceBundle]]
> var resourceBundleFactories : RulesSeq[ResourceBundleFactory]
>
> // In S.scala
> def resourceBundles : List[ResourceBundle] =
> ...
> case Nil => _resBundle.set(LiftRules.resourceNames.flatMap(name =>
> tryo {
>  List(ResourceBundle.getBundle(name, locale))
> } openOr {
>  // I think this is right...
>  
> LiftRules.resourceBundleFactories.toList.find(_.isDefinedAt(locale)).map(_.apply(locale))
> openOr Nil
> }))
>
>
> Derek
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Tim Perrett <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> Guys,
>>
>> Me and Derek have just been chatting over IM debating the whole
>> resource bundle loading mech in Lift. As you know, im working on this
>> database localization stuff right now as I need it for work.
>>
>> Right now, were loading bundles using the normal
>> ResourceBundle.getBundle methods from Java. Whilst this is good for
>> most applications, when you need flexibility to do more compelx
>> localization, it falls down a bit.
>>
>> Id like to propose adding a configurable "bundle factory" to
>> LiftRules, so that we provide a localization hook. Something like:
>>
>> // LiftRules.scala
>> type ResourceBundleFactoryPF = (String,Locale) => Box[ResourceBundle]
>> var resourceBundleFactories : RulesSeq[ResourceBundleFactory]
>>
>> Then, in S.scala where we load the bundles, rather than having openOr
>> Nil, it could fall through to the custom loaders like so:
>>
>> case Nil => _resBundle.set(LiftRules.resourceNames.flatMap(name =>
>> tryo {
>>  List(ResourceBundle.getBundle(name, locale))
>> } openOr {
>>  // load bundle factories, do something
>>  // here to load them (not sure what yet!)
>>  LiftRules.resourceBundleFactories
>> }))
>>
>> Then in Boot.scala you could do:
>>
>> LiftRules.resourceBundleFactories.prepend {
>>  case (basename, locale) => DBResourceBundle(basename, locale)
>> }
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
>> >>
>>
>

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