Introduction to localization

Overview

Runway metadata provides a built-in, enterprise ready localization solution. Defining a default value is as simple as setting the label attribute on a metadata component:

<mdBusiness name="net.geoprism.GeoprismUser" label="User" ...

This label can then be read from the metadata:

MdBusiness userMdBiz = MdBusiness.getMdBusiness("net.geoprism.GeoprismUser");

userMdBiz.getDisplayLabel().getDefaultValue();

Display labels can be thought of as a sort of hash map where the key is the Locale and the value is the localized label for that locale. The example above writes and reads from the default locale. Other locales can be written to and read from like so:

MdBusiness userMdBiz = MdBusiness.getMdBusiness("net.geoprism.GeoprismUser");

userMdBiz.getDisplayLabel().setValue(Locale.CANADA, "User");

userMdBiz.getDisplayLabel().getValue(Locale.CANADA);