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Question

Is there a VB equivalent to org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource package in java?
I am not focusing on Spring with this question. I want to know if there is a way to have a message properties file that I can pass variables like you can with hat java package.
Here is an example of what I would like to do.
In a properties file have the following line:
success.message = Successfully created document with Trans No. {0}
In source code have this line:
ResourceBundleMessageSource.getMessage("success.message",new String[] {transObject.getTransId()}, null));
This code uses the properties file finds success.message and passes the variable from getTransId().
I want to do this to centralize all my error messages. and not have hard coded messages throughout my code.
Is there some kind of equivalent in VB?

Answer 1

One solution is to use resource files. Add a resource by right clicking on the project and selecting project properties. Then click on resources, and add a new resource.
We work from the example in the question :
With resources we cannot follow the sam naming convention as you see above. We need to replace the '.' with a '_' ie: success.message -> success_message
Resource files do not allow the '.' in the key name.
Next we need to the message into the resource file.
"{0} successfully submitted the file."
We use {0}....{x} as place holders for variables.
The first line in the resource tab should look like this
success_message | {0} successfully submitted the file.
The function to do the replacing of the place holders should look like this:
Public Shared Function messageRetriver(ByVal message As String, ByVal variables As String()) As String
Dim i As Integer
Dim pattern As String
For i = 0 To variables.Length - 1
pattern = "\x7B" & i & "\x7D"
Dim myRegex As New Regex(pattern)
message = myRegex.Replace(message, variables(i))
Next
Return message
End Function
Now in your code all you have to do is call this function passing the resource, and the string array of variables.
Utility.messageRetriver(My.Resources.success_message, {"My Program"})
That should do the trick.
I used this as a resource to compile this information.