Comments on: JBoss Tools Properties Editor Surprise

By: Devon

Devon — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:33:23 +0000

It’s part of JBoss Tools:

http://labs.jboss.com/tools/

I have the update URL above, and links to the Resource Bundle Editor are above as well.

By: Divya

Divya — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:14:20 +0000

how can I download Red Hat editor?
how to use this editor?

By: Devon

Devon — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:02:08 +0000

Looks like fixes were just checked in. That’s why I love open source projects.

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-804?page=all

By: Devon

Devon — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:38:25 +0000

JBoss ticket:

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-804

By: Devon

Devon — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:48:06 +0000

So this may not be a bug so much as some oddness and interaction between this editor plugin and the resource bundle editor plugin I use for managing the 26 languages, and growing, of 10MinuteMail.

Basically the resource bundle editor uses a space-equals-space to separate keys from values. ” = “. This is how Sun’s examples of resource bundle properties file look so that seems reasonable. However, the Red Hat editor goes by the strict definition of a Java Properties file, which lets you use spaces as the delimiter, and ignore any immediately subsequent delimiters. It then rewrites the delimiter to only the first valid delimiter it finds, which in this case is a space ” “.

Then, the resource bundle editor apparently can’t handle spaces as delimiters, in violation of the spec apparently, and can’t handle the newly formatted properties files.

I have a bug open with the resource bundle editor here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&atid=701316&aid=1777814&group_id=125041

And will also be opening a Jira ticket asking that the Red Hat editor leave in the complete set of adjacent delimiters it finds.