Support for MessageFormat pattern for parametrized properties

[kassim]

It would be good to have the possibility to use the MessageFormat pattern, as used by GWT i18n Messages (e.g. "The disk "{1}" contains {0} file(s)."), as to be able to share code between a GWT and other Java project easily.

This isn't possible at the moment is it?

I'll be looking into how I can implement this next week, any suggestions on implementation will be welcome.

[lviggiano]

Hi @mrkma

OWNER supports the java.util.Formatter syntax as explained here.

I was considering this feature useless, since OWNER is not supposed to be a tool for i18n and I was thinking to replace this feature with the possibility to specify parameters as setters for properties, for future development. But this is still undecided, and definitely there are more things to work on, before this.

Hope this helps.

[lviggiano]

It could be an idea to be able to specify a Formatter on class level and on method level, by annotations. Defaulting to java.util.Formatter for backward compatibility.

[lviggiano]

Note for myself: could this be included in the preprocessor feature? See #120