Retrieve messages

Grammaticus provides full functional message formatter which can be easily used to retrieve the messages defined in message XML files. Refer to Message files on how to define messages.

Once you have messages, entities(nouns), adjectives and articles defined for certain language, you could start to retrieve them.

Retrieve a plain text message

Here is simple test case to demonstrate the function to retrieve a simple message from XML.

/**
 * Test case to load English message set and validate the retrieved message.
 * 
 * @throws MalformedURLException
 * @throws IOException
 */
@Test
public void testEnglishMessage() throws MalformedURLException, IOException {

	HumanLanguage language = LanguageProviderFactory.get().getLanguage(Locale.US);
	String msg = getLabelSet(language, false).getString("Icons", "colorPicker");
	
	assertTrue("Got the wrong message.", msg.equals("Choose a Color"));
}

Retrieve a message with entity

Before running this code, please define related message(in labels.xml), entities and articles(in names.xml) for English first. Then put those file under de/ directory.

Message is defined as,

<iniFile>
   <section name="Global">
      <param name="activity">Create <A/> <activity/></param>
      <param name="contact">Create <A/> <contact/></param>
   </section>
</iniFile>

Example code to retrieve the message.

/**
 * Test case to load English message with entities.
 * 
 * @throws MalformedURLException
 * @throws IOException
 */
@Test
public void testMessageWithEntity() throws MalformedURLException, IOException {

	// English
	HumanLanguage language = LanguageProviderFactory.get().getLanguage(Locale.US);
	
	LabelSet ls = getLabelSet(language, false);	
	System.out.println(ls.getString("Global", "activity"));
	System.out.println(ls.getString("Global", "contact"));
}

It will output following result.