[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Plurals

[petemuir]

At least in English there are so many irregular plurals (e.g. dog/dogs, sheep/sheep, pony/ponies) that I think you would need to specify the messages.

I think you would hit problems parsing that last string.  Perhaps its not quite what you are after but I would suggest just using (if you are using facelets) something like

...
  |    <h:outputText value="#{messages[my:pluraliser('found_targets', foundTargets.rowCount)}" />
  | ...

public static String pluraliser(String messageBase, Integer rowCount) {
  |    if (rowCount == null || rowCount.equals(0)) {
  |       then return messageBase + "_none";
  |    } else if (rowCount.equals(1) {
  |       return messageBase + "_one";
  |    } else {
  |       return messageBase + "many";
  |    }
  | }

N.B. You might have to play around with the exact signature of the facelets  function - I'm not sure whether you can return the result of a function as the key of map (but if you can't you probably should be able to).  If you can't you could wrap it in a facelets source file with an inital ui:param or just lookup the message from Messages.instance() in the facelets function.

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