Re: RFC - Storing translated values in a PropertyBag

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

Martin Baulig wrote:

> My proposal - PART I:
> =====================
>
> a) getValue ("/bonobo-config-test/test-string") returns the untranslated
>    string as CORBA::string. I think this is what it already does.
>
> b) getKeys ("/bonobo-config-test/test-string") returns a list of all the
>    languages ("de", "es", "sv").
>
> c) getValue ("/bonobo-config-test/test-string[de]") returns the german
>    translation as Bonobo::Config::LocalizedString.
>
>    Optionally, this can do a lookup in the language list (so if the
>    xmldb file contains "de_DE" and you ask for "de", it'll first check
>    for "de" and then for "de_DE" etc.) - and we can also allow multiple,
>    comma separated locales in the square brackets.
>

Maybe we should also consider a special method:

getLocalizedValue (in string key, in string locale);

- Dietmar