OVERVIEW

This tool converts .NET resources (*.resx-files) into client js-resources. Currently the tool supports two output formats:

js files for loading via RequireJS-plugin i18n (see http://requirejs.org/docs/api.html#i18n)
json files for loading via i18next (see http://i18next.com/)

OPTIONS

input

Default value: current directory
Required: no
Aliases: -i, -input

Absolute or relative path to a directory with *.resx files or to a resx file. There can be several such option specified at once. The tool expects to find one or many files with the same base name:

Resources.resx
Resources.ru.resx
Resources.nl.res
Resources.de.res

All such files form a bundle with base name 'Resources' and 4 culture-specific resources (one of them is invariant culture). If the option targets a file then you should specifies all files of a bundle (like: -i res.resx -i res.nl.resx -i res.ru.resx). You can mix specifying folders and separate files.

outputFormat

Value: RequireJs, i18next
Default value: RequireJs
Required: no
Aliases: -outputFormat, -format

Output format selection:

RequireJs (default) - output will be AMD modules suitable for use with RequireJS i18n
i18next - output will be JSON dictionary files that can be used with i18next

outputDir

Default value: current directory
Required: no
Aliases: -outputDir, -dir

Absolute or relative path to a directory where result *.js files will be placed. With this option a result js-file will be generated for each input file (whether how they were specified). This is default option if none of inputDir or inputFile options were specified. Cannot be used with outputFile option simultaneously.

outputFile

Required: no
Aliases: -outputFile, -file

Absolute or relative path to a result js-file. If several inputs specified (via inputDir or inputFile options) then resources will be merged into the single js-file. Cannot be used with outputDir option simultaneously.

casing

Value: keep, camelCase, lowerCase
Default value: keep
Required: no
Aliases: -c, -case

It specified how resource keys from *.resx will be represented in json.
It can be one of the following values:

keep - (default) as is (do not modify)
camelCase - 'SomeMessage' -> 'someMessage'
lowerCase - 'SomeMessage' -> 'somemessage'

recursive

Value: none (it's a flag)
Default value: not specified
Required: no
Aliases: -f, -recursively

The flag specifies that searching in a directory specified with input option will be recursive.

force

Value: none (it's a flag)
Default value: not specified Required: no Aliases: -f, -force

The flag specifies then read-only files (if any) will be overwritten.

fallbackCulture

Value: string
Default value: 'dev'
Required: no
Aliases: -fallback, -fallbackCulture

When using i18next as output format the 'root' translations get used as the fallback culture, which go in their own subdirectory (essentially forming their own culture). By default this will be 'dev', however you should probably specify something more appropriate like 'en' or 'fr'.

INSTALL

You can install the tool as NuGet-package ResxToJson from nuget.org.

The package contains single exe module ResxToJson.exe in package's 'tools' folder.

USAGE EXAMPLES

RequireJS

Let's consider that we have a VS project in 'c:\projects\MyServerProject' with *.resx files.
And we want to convert server resources into client resources in 'MyClientProject' folder.

ResxToJson.exe -i c:\projects\MyServerProject -dir .\MyClientProject -c camel

If MyServerProject contains two files Resources.resx and Resources.ru.resx then MyClientProject will contain:

resources.js - default resources from Resources.resx
ru/resource.js - resources from Resources.ru.resx

resources.js will look like:

define({
  "root": {
    "fileNotFound": "File cannot be found",
  },
  "ru": true
});

and ru/resources.js will look like:

define({
  "fileNotFound": "Файл не найден"
});

Later we can import js-resources in our client application:

define(["i18n!nls/resources"], function (resources) {
  alert(resources.fileNotFound);
});

i18next

Now let's consider that we have the same VS project ('MyServerProject' with *.resx files) and we want to convert server resources into client json resources for loading via i18next.

ResxToJson.exe -i .\MyServerProject -dir .\MyClientProject\content\locales -format i18next -fallback en

The tool processes all *.resx in folder 'MyServerProject' and creates json dictionary files in the '.\MyClientProject\content\locales' folder (one for each resx file).

If 'MyServerProject' contains two files Resources.resx and Resources.ru.resx then MyClientProject\content\locales will contain:

en/resources.json - default resources from Resources.resx:

{
    "fileNotFound": "File cannot be found"
}

ru/resource.json - resources from Resources.ru.resx:

{
    "fileNotFound": "Файл не найден"
}

evil-shrike/ResxToJson