Localisation tutorials ?

I am currently coding my plugin and I am thinking of ways to improve it. I then thought, why not do some localisation. I then thought I can hard code the translated files, but I want to know if there is any way easier. Thanks for any help.

 

Say you have a lang.yml file and a config.yml. Your lang file will have something like:

Code:

English:
    no-permission: "You don't have permission!"
    invalid-argument: "Invalid arguments!"
Spanish:
    no-permission: "Tu no tienes spanishWordforPermission!"
    invalid-argument: "I don't know spanish well!"

Then, in onEnable, you assign global variables to the values. Example:

Code:java

 
public void onEnable(){
   String lang = getConfig().getString("lang");
   this.noPermsMessage = langYml.getString(lang+"no-permission");
   this.invalidArg = langYml.getString(lang+"invalid-argument");
}
 

Hope this helps.

 

The easiest way (appart from hard coding it) would be to use the config.yml file. You could load all messages (and other information) from there, allowing your users to even customize those.

Depending on the size of your plugin, you can get a bit more fancy and create one (or more) new file.yml, which are dedicated to localisation.

 

Note that there should be a period at the beginning of the lang+"section" areas, but if i edit it i'll lose all the spacing D:

EDIT: minoneer 's solution is probably better, just allowing completely custom messages.

 

Okay, I'll try and see how it goes.

 

good luck

 

One question, how to make it automatically generate the files ?

EDIT: The language file.

 

You might find this "guide" helpfull:

http://wiki.bukkit.org/Configuration_API_Reference

especially this section: http://wiki.bukkit.org/Configuration_API_Reference#Arbitrary_Configurations

 

Thanks ! ^^