COSMOS Design 281219

Code to dynamically load localization translation string file

This is the design document for bugzilla 281219.

Change History

Name:	Date:	Revised Sections:
Josh Hester	July 14, 2009	Initial version

Workload Estimation

Rough workload estimate in person weeks

Process	Sizing	Names of people doing the work
Design	1	Josh Hester
Code	1	Josh Hester
Test	1	Josh Hester
Documentation	0
Build and infrastructure	0
Code review, etc.*	1
TOTAL	1

'* - includes other committer work (e.g. check-in, contribution tracking)

Purpose

This code will detect the country of the running JRE and then load the appropriate country's translation strings.

Requirements

• This code must determine the appropriate country and its country code.
  • This code must load the appropriate translation key file based on the country code.

Design details

• This code will use the java Locale api to determine the current country code in the following fashion:

Locale locale = Locale.getDefault();
locale.getLanguage()

Then it will load the appropriate property code based on a file name specified by the country code.

Impacts of this enhancement

• The SDD runtime will be able to dynamically load localization files for the translation strings used in the UI.

Open Issues/Questions

Do we need to code in any exceptions, for instance if a country's file is not found?