<i18n dev> ResourceBundleControlProvider replacement for java 9?

[mandy chung]

Let me try to see if I understand your situation correctly.


On 1/12/18 12:59 PM, Romain Manni-Bucau wrote:
> All are com.company.*
>
>>
>> Assuming service packages use a resource bundle.
>>

team1, team2, team3 all uses a resource bundle.  Let's say 
com.company.team1.service calls 
ResourceBundle.getBundle("com.company.resources.Team1").



>>     Now translations are in http://i18n.company.com/translations
>>     <http://i18n.company.com/translations> and the team providing the
>>     key/values is team4 with no access to team1, team2 and team3
>>     sources normally.
>>

team4 provides the key/values of "com.company.resources.Team1". team4 
and team1 will agree on the content of this resource bundle e.g. key 
names and the value if any text format.

I assume your ResourceBundleControlProvider implementation returns a 
Control instance that implements newBundle method to return a 
ResourceBundle for
"com.company.resources.Team1".

One migration solution is to use ResourceBundleProvider.  The steps it 
takes are
(1) define a SPI for each bundle named 
com.company.resources.spi.Team1Provider
(2) reuse your existing Control.newBundle implementation to implement
ResourceBundleProvider::getBundle to return the requested 
ResourceBundle.  This assumes in team4 module
(3) when migrating team1.jar to a named module, the module definition 
declares uses com.company.resources.spi.Team1Provider

team4 module can have one single provider implementation for more than 
one resource bundle.

Does this help?  I can see it takes some amount of work.  How many 
resource bundles do your application have?  It'd be good if you give a 
try and send us feedback.

Mandy