Re: [Nuxeo-localizer] Proposal: local object

[Luistxo]

Right now we use differently localised methods to render dates, for things 
like the example that David proposes.

In DTML we write: <dtml-var "LongDate(bobobase_modification_time)">

And in the language folders that come with Localizer we have different 
LongDate methods. The English folder 'en' contains one of the hardcoded 
functions to render a given date, and in the Basque folder 'eu' we have a 
more complicated method, that calls a specific python script, a dictionary 
of month names, etc.

The only difference that I spot in David's proposal is that those divergent 
methods would now placed in the same folder and are marked as _en or _eu in 
their ID.




> Imagine a folder with two new management screens, one of
> them would be the well known "Languages", the other one
> one could be called "Local attributes".
>
> The name of the folder could be "date".
>
> Imagine we define two languages for "date": "en" and "es".
> And two local attributes: "short" and "long".
>
> Then we add to it the Python scripts "short_es", "short_en",
> "long_es" and "long_en". As you already guessed this methods
> get a DateTime instance as parameter and return a string with
> a short or long representation of the date in spanish or english.
>
> Then you could use the object this way:
>
>  <dtml-var "date.short(bobobase_modification_time)">
>  <dtml-var "date.long(bobobase_modification_time)">
>
> You also could store other objects: images, files, etc..

I think that this may work when there is 1<>1 object correspondency. I 
don't know if I am mistaken.

But it may well happen that, in order to render something you need

* for locale A a method that calls another method plus 2 or 3 pythonscripts
* for locale B, just a simple method.

That is the case, for instance with some Basque date formats, as compared 
with English ones. The present architecture of Localizer let´s us handle 
this thorugh the locale/language folders. Would the new feature improve 
this? Could it work with a 1<>4 object correspondency?

Luistxo

PD. I've just invented this term "object correspondency". Obviously I'm not 
an English native speaker neither computer-savvy...

PPD. I hate these lists where the automated reply doesn't go to the list :-)