Add Message catalog support for input validation ( and other )

[anonymous]

Hi, It would be great if one could define a message catalog for use with input validation widgets and other widgets that show text. Cheers, Ron

[dylan]

could you please be more explicit in defining what it is that you want done here. I'm not sure what is meant by "message catalog" in this context.

[anonymous]

Currently validation messages are defined either per widget (so one can create a new widget with a default validation/missing- message) or per instance ( as a widget instanciation parameter ).

However, It would be usefull if the messages could be defined elsewhere and be loaded as key->value pairs:

Just an idea for implementation: something like:

messages_en.js

dojo.messages.valid.missing = "* The value is required";
dojo.messages.valid.int = "* A numeric value is required";

then do:

dojo.require("dojo.messages.messages_en.js");

to import the messages -

support for i18n and ability to override individual messages throughout an application is then trivial...

Cheers, Ron

[dylan]

Milestone 0.7 deleted

[Adam Peller]

I think this is basically the feature covered by our i18n system, which allows such locale-sensitive info to be placed under an nls/ subdirectory, then referenced by widgets using dojo.requireLocalization()

There is a higher-level issue here which relates to how these messages might get overridden at runtime or by markup (in a localizable way) so I'm leaving this open.

[alex]

Milestone 2.0 deleted

[Adam Peller]

these messages are gradually being phased out, but strings in markup for now are just assumed to be localized on the server.