Question

I have an enum FooBar at class Clazz with falues FOO and BAR like this:

class Clazz {
    enum FooBar{
        FOO,
        BAR
    }
}

I now would like to use wicket getString() method to localize the values FOO and BAR. The best I can do is to define at i18n file

 Clazz.FooBar.FOO=foo
 Clazz.FooBar.BAR=bar

and I get values with this code

 fooBar = FooBar.FOO;
 getString("Clazz.FooBar." + fooBar.name());

I have heard that this could be achieved without Clazz.FooBar addition to the i18n query string, but the method to be called would be different. How to do this?

Answer 1

You can put this method in your base page/panel:

public String getString(Enum<?> value) {
    Class<?> enclosingClass = value.getClass().getEnclosingClass();
    String key = (enclosingClass == null ? "" : enclosingClass.getSimpleName() + ".")
            + value.getClass().getSimpleName() + "." + value.name();
    return getString(key);
}

Then you can simply call it with

getString(Clazz.FooBar.FOO);

and it will return what you defined in the property file.