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-//
-// $Id: MessageResolver.java,v 1.1 2001/10/31 09:44:22 mdb Exp $
-//
-// samskivert library - useful routines for java programs
-// Copyright (C) 2001 Michael Bayne
-// 
-// This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-// under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
-// by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
-// (at your option) any later version.
-//
-// This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-// Lesser General Public License for more details.
-//
-// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
-// License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
-// Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
-
-package com.samskivert.velocity;
-
-import org.apache.velocity.context.InternalContextAdapter;
-import org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException;
-
-import org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTIdentifier;
-import org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod;
-import org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.Node;
-import org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ReferenceResolver;
-
-import com.samskivert.Log;
-import com.samskivert.servlet.MessageManager;
-
-/**
- * Maps a set of appliation messages (translation strings) into the
- * context so that they are available to templates that wish to display
- * localized text.
- *
- * <p> If a message resolver is mapped into the context as
- * <code>i18n</code>, then it might be accessed as follows:
- *
- * <pre>
- * $i18n.main.intro($user.username)
- * </pre>
- *
- * where <code>main.intro</code> might be defined in the message resource
- * file as:
- *
- * <pre>
- * main.intro=Hello there {0}, welcome to our site!
- * </pre>
- *
- * @see MessageManager
- */
-public class MessageResolver implements ReferenceResolver
-{
-    /**
-     * Constructs a new message resolver which will use the supplied
-     * message manager to obtain translated strings.
-     */
-    public MessageResolver (MessageManager msgmgr)
-    {
-        _msgmgr = msgmgr;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Concatenates the remaining reference nodes into a single message
-     * name and looks up the matching translation string. If the last node
-     * is an {@link ASTMethod}, then the arguments from that are
-     * substituted into the translated message.
-     */
-    public Object resolveReference (
-        InternalContextAdapter ctx, Node[] nodes, int offset)
-        throws MethodInvocationException
-    {
-        StringBuffer path = new StringBuffer();
-        boolean bogus = false;
-        int lastidx = nodes.length-1;
-        Object result = this;
-
-        // reconstruct the path to the property
-        for (int i = offset; i < nodes.length; i++) {
-            // separate components with dots
-            if (path.length() > 0) {
-                path.append(".");
-            }
-
-            // if the node is an ASTMethod, it dang well better be the
-            // last thing in the chain or we've got a problem
-            if (nodes[i] instanceof ASTMethod) {
-                ASTMethod mnode = (ASTMethod)nodes[i];
-                // make a note to freak out if this is anything but
-                // the last component of the path. we'd freak out now
-                // but we want to reconstruct the path so that we can
-                // report it in the exception that's thrown
-                if (i != lastidx) {
-                    bogus = true;
-                }
-                path.append(mnode.getMethodName());
-
-            } else if (nodes[i] instanceof ASTIdentifier) {
-                ASTIdentifier inode = (ASTIdentifier)nodes[i];
-                path.append(inode.getIdentifier());
-
-            } else {
-                // what is it man?
-                bogus = true;
-                path.append("?").append(nodes[i]);
-            }
-        }
-
-        // do any pending freaking out
-        if (bogus) {
-            throw new MethodInvocationException(
-                "Invalid message resource path.", null, path.toString());
-        }
-
-        // we need to get the invocation context from our internal context
-        // adapter
-        InvocationContext ictx = (InvocationContext)
-            ctx.getInternalUserContext();
-
-        // if the last component is a property method, we want to use
-        // it's arguments when looking up the message
-        if (nodes[lastidx] instanceof ASTMethod) {
-            ASTMethod mnode = (ASTMethod)nodes[lastidx];
-            // we may cache message formatters later, but for now just
-            // use the static convenience function
-            Object[] args = mnode.getParams(ctx);
-            return _msgmgr.getMessage(ictx.getRequest(),
-                                      path.toString(), args);
-
-        } else {
-            // otherwise just look up the path
-            return _msgmgr.getMessage(ictx.getRequest(), path.toString());
-        }
-    }
-
-    protected MessageManager _msgmgr;
-}