Any way to internationalize without property files

Hi! 
 
BIRT supports l10n an i18n using simple property files. I'm running reports from Jboss and 
my rptdesign files are stored in database. When creating design I'm providing InputStream 
 
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>design = engine.openReportDesign(designStream);</pre>
 
I think there is no way to do the same with localization property files. This separation is quite inconvenient. I'm wondering if there is any way to handle localization without property files? For example from database. Or it would be great to store localization map in .rptdesign file.

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JasonW

You could always write script to retrieve label values from your db instead of a properties file.

Jason

EricB

Playing with the API, there's not actually a need to source the properties from a "file". That is just BIRT's default strategy for locating resources. One of the openReportDesign() methods accepts an IResourceLocator. Creating an implementation of this and passing it in to the openReportDesign() method, one can return a URL whose getInputStream() returns properties from any place: constants, DB, file, or whatever.

Hope that helps,

Eric

Yunmanger

Thank you! 
 
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'EricB'" data-cid="80764" data-time="1311886317" data-date="28 July 2011 - 01:51 PM">
Playing with the API, there's not actually a need to source the properties from a "file". That is just BIRT's default strategy for locating resources. One of the openReportDesign() methods accepts an IResourceLocator. Creating an implementation of this and passing it in to the openReportDesign() method, one can return a URL whose getInputStream() returns properties from any place: constants, DB, file, or whatever. 
 
Hope that helps, 
 
Eric </blockquote>