Programmatically Maintaining Translatable Strings

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Programmatically Maintaining Translatable Strings

JADE provides methods that enable you to write your own extract and load routines for translatable strings and to add and modify translatable strings in a running deployed system.

An application can add translatable strings to a schema and change existing translatable strings. For details about these properties, which are summarized in the following table, see Volume 2 of the JADE Encyclopaedia of Classes.

Class	Property	Contains a reference to the …
TranslatableString	formBuildDataRefs	Set of forms that contain the translatable string
TranslatableString	locale	Locale of the translatable string

The TranslatableString class inherits the properties summarized in the following table from its undocumented metaschema superclass.

Class	Property	Contains…
Constant	constantRefs	A reference to a set of translatable strings that use (reference) the translatable string
Constant	constantUsages	A reference to a collection of translatable strings that are used by (embedded by) the translatable string

For details about these methods, which are summarized in the following table, see Volume 2 of the JADE Encyclopaedia of Classes.

Class	Method	Description
Schema	addCompileTranslatableString	Adds a translatable string to all base locales of the receiving schema.
Schema	getBaseLocalesLocal	Populates the specified collection with the base locales defined in the receiving schema.
Schema	getLocaleLocal	Returns a reference to the locale object with the specified name in the receiving schema. Note that this method returns both base and clone locales.
Script	getSource	Method that returns a string containing the current source of the translatable string.
Locale	getTranslatableStringLocal	Returns the specified translatable string object from the receiving locale. Note that if the receiver is a clone locale, this method always returns null.
Locale	getTranslatableStrings	Returns a reference to the translatable strings of the receiving locale. If the receiver is a clone, the collection is that of the associated base locale. The collection is in name order.
Locale	getTranslatableStringsByNum	Returns a reference to the translatable strings of the receiving locale. If the receiver is a clone, the collection is that of the associated base locale. The collection is in number order.
Locale	isClone	Specifies whether the locale is a clone of another locale.
TranslatableString	updateCompile	Updates the existing translatable string.