Trema Maven Plugin – Export to Java properties files

Export to Java properties

The trema:exportProperties goal exports the Trema database into Java properties. A separate properties file for each language is created.

More info about Java ResourceBundles/properties can be found here http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/resbundle/index.html

The following snippet shows a minimal configuration needed to export the Trema database (*.trm file) into properties during the maven build:

<build>
  <plugins>
    ...
    <plugin>
      <groupId>ch.netcetera.nca-236-0</groupId>
      <artifactId>trema-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <executions>
        <execution>        
         <goals>
          <goal>exportProperties</goal>
         </goals>
        </execution>
      </executions>      
    </plugin>
    ...
  </plugins>
</build>

The following defaults apply here:

The goal exportProperties is executed during the process-sources phase of the build
The path to the trema database (.trm file) is expected to be: ${project.basedir}/src/main/resources/text.trm
all languages are exported
all states are exported
properties are written into the directory ${project.build.directory}/classes/ using filenames text_<language>.properties

In case the above defaults are not suitable, the goal can be configured. The following sample shows a more sophisticated configuration of the goal.

<build>
  <plugins>
    ...
    <plugin>
      <groupId>ch.netcetera.nca-236-0</groupId>
      <artifactId>trema-maven-plugin</artifactId>      
      <executions>
        <execution>
          <goals>
            <goal>exportProperties</goal>
          </goals>
        </execution>
      </executions>
      <configuration>
        <!-- explicit path to the trema database file to be exported -->
        <tremaFile>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources/vpas.trm</tremaFile>
        <!-- explicit path for the properties files that are generated -->
        <basename>${project.build.directory}/classes/resources/MyApplicationResources</basename>
        <!-- export the language de_DE into a fallback properties file without the language in the filename -->
        <defaultlanguage>de_DE</defaultlanguage>
        <!-- specify the languages to be exported -->
        <languages>
          <language>en_US</language>
          <language>fr_FR</language>
          <language>it_IT</language>
        </languages>
        <!-- specify the text value states to be exported -->
        <states>
          <state>verified</state>
          <state>special</state>
        </states>
        <!-- apply a filter to transform text values during export -->
        <filters>
          <filter>messageformat</filter>
        </filters>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>
    ...
  </plugins>
</build>