Portlets and ResourceBundle

[mholzner]

has anyone figured out how to use resource bundles in a portlet ?

I configured my portlet.xml to use a rb:

<portlet-name>Blah</portlet-name>
....
<resource-bundle>com.blah.Blah<resource-bundle>
<portlet-info>
Title
<short-title>Short Title</short-title>
keywords
</portlet-info>
....

I added
web-inf/classes/com.blah.Blah.properties
web-inf/classes/com.blah.Blah_en.properties
web-inf/classes/com.blah.Blah_fr.properties

with content like
javax.portlet.title=english Blah
javax.portlet.short-title=The Title
javax.portlet.description=dunno
javax.portlet.keywords=blah, more blah


When I call getResourceBundle(request.getLocale()); inside a doView (the browsers locale is en) I get a bundle, but it's locale (rb.getLocale()) is null, and I get the entries from the descriptor no matter what (not the ones from the rb) via rb.getString("javax.portlet.title");

commenting the values for title etc. in the portlet.xml leads to exceptions at runtime, like:
java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find resource for bundle org.jboss.portal.common.util.ParentChildResourceBundl
e, key javax.portlet.title
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getObject(ResourceBundle.java:326)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getString(ResourceBundle.java:286)
at javax.portlet.GenericPortlet.getTitle(GenericPortlet.java:87)

I also tried to use a ListResourceBundle with the same results.

What am I missing ?

[mholzner]

sorry, the xml in the prev. post got mingled up a bit. The portlet.xml entries are ok in the real thing.....

[julien1]

you need to declare the supported locale in the deployment descriptor, otherwise it does not know it must use you resource bundle for those language.

<supported-locale>en</supported-locale>

The code to decide which bundle to use is based on that.

If you do not specify any supported locale, then it will use com.blah.Blah.properties and if it does not exist, com.blah.Blah_en.properties.

Now I need to check what should return getLocale on the resource bundle, because the null return seems odd to me.

[mholzner]

hmm, sorry I forgot to mention those: they are already there

.......
<supported-locale>en</supported-locale>
<supported-locale>fr</supported-locale>

<resource-bundle>com.blah.Blah</resource-bundle>
.......

[julien1]

do you have a test case ?

[julien1]

with a small test case I can see what is going on and fix it.