Adding some UI focused folks to the CC.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 03:15:53PM +0000, SuichII, Christopher wrote: > Sure! > > What I'd like: As someone developing a UI plugin, I'd like to be able to > contribute my own internationalized messages/labels/etc. to the JS > dictionary. Currently, this can be done by shoving them all in to the > dictionary when your plugin is initialized, but it is not very pretty - > requiring you to determine the locale and require the messages file yourself. > > So a little preface. As far as I can tell, all UI plugin loading is done in > JS - that is, not at all in JSPs. So, any UI plugin internationalization > needs to be done in JS, or some of the UI plugin loading needs to be done in > JSPs (I'm gonna bet the former is preferred). > > My idea was to add some JS to dictionary.jsp (whose JS is executed after UI > plugins are loaded). Here we would take the locale from the JSP and require a > JS file in plugins/<plugin_name>/dictionary/ depending on the locale. > > In my current prototype, the JS files holding the internationalized strings > just store everything in a hash in the cloudStack variable, like: > cloudStack.plugin_dictionaries.<plugin_name>. I've done this because (I'm new > to requirejs and) I am yet to find a way to simply return the hash or have > the hash sent as a parameter to a callback of require(…). > > Does anyone with more requirejs experience know how we could accomplish this > more elegantly? > > I'm also open to suggestions on completely different designs. =) > > -Chris > > On Jun 18, 2013, at 10:55 AM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> > wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:18:16PM +0000, SuichII, Christopher wrote: > >> I've got some ideas on how to implement a system for allowing ui plugins > >> to contribute internationalized strings to the ui dictionary, but I'd like > >> to run things by a committer. Is there someone(s) who would like to talk > >> offline (or keep replying here) about this feature? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Chris > > > > The best method to collaborate on the project is to use the list to > > build up the feature proposal... so explain away here please! > >
