Use dots in resource names

[sebdesalvador]

It seems it's not possible to use dots in resource names because of the way the Path is parsed (here) and because of the brackets dynamically added here.

We have a project where the resource files are generated and contain lots of dots, so I'm looking for a way to use the LocalizationResourceManager but so far not much luck.

I found a way by referencing the entire LocalizationResourceManager.Maui project, reference my text resources using underscores instead of dots, and finally replace those underscores by dots programmatically with a text.Replace('_', '.') here.

I'm sure there must be a better way?

Thanks!

[sebdesalvador]

I have forked the project so I could commit a minor change and use that fork as submodule in my main project.
Please do let me know if you decide to incorporate it into your main so that I could simply reference the nuget in my main project instead of having a submodule that is a fork of this ;)

https://github.com/sebdesalvador/LocalizationResourceManager.Maui

Cheers!

[SirJohnK]

@sebdesalvador, interesting! I will look into this and come back to you!

• LocalizedString can be used to handle this, but it is only useful for a limited number of texts.
• Out of curiosity, why are there dots in the names?

Cheers!

[sebdesalvador]

A sort of path/namespace like system was adopted early in the project, so our resource keys look like project.web.page1.title 😅

[SirJohnK]

@sebdesalvador , I been thinking how to best implement this and came up with a solution where you can activate/opt in to support name with dots by calling SupportNameWithDots when configuring library with option to set custom replacement text.

.UseLocalizationResourceManager(settings =>
{
   settings.AddResource(AppResources.ResourceManager);
   settings.RestoreLatestCulture(true);
   settings.SupportNameWithDots();
});

See my Support_Name_With_Dots branch: HERE!

What do you think!?

[sebdesalvador]

Hi @SirJohnK, looks real good, just a minor comment, I have favoured a double underscore as substitution, just in case I did have a simple one in a resource name ;)

[SirJohnK]

You have the option to set your own substitution when configuring this:

.UseLocalizationResourceManager(settings =>
{
   settings.AddResource(AppResources.ResourceManager);
   settings.RestoreLatestCulture(true);
   settings.SupportNameWithDots("__");
});

Will soon release this in a new version! I make a shoutout when done! ;)

[sebdesalvador]

Perfect!

[SirJohnK]

v1.0.4 released! :)

[sebdesalvador]

Thanks for your quick reaction to my issue 😉

[SirJohnK]

Happy to help! :)