Allow message bundles to specify a parent bundle with the key '__parent'.

2012-02-21 15:19:42 -08:00
parent 9936513cd5
commit 24c7dcc7f1
1 changed files with 11 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -186,7 +186,17 @@ public class MessageManager
     */
    protected void initBundle (MessageBundle bundle, String path, ResourceBundle rbundle)
    {
-        bundle.init(this, path, rbundle, _global);
+        MessageBundle parentBundle = null;
+        try {
+            parentBundle = getBundle(rbundle.getString("__parent"));
+            // Note: if getBundle() fails to find our parent it will log a warning and return null
+        } catch (MissingResourceException mre ) {
+            // no resource named __parent: it's ok.
+        }
+        if (parentBundle == null) {
+            parentBundle = _global;
+        }
+        bundle.init(this, path, rbundle, parentBundle);
    }

    /**