Question

I was wondering if there is any strings centralization in ColdFusion similar to Android strings.xml file.
So, that my code remains intact if i want to do any changes in string

Answer 1

ColdFusion is a programming language, not a user interface framework.

There is nothing like Android’s string resource management built into ColdFusion, but it would be very easy to implement that yourself.

resources/strings.xml:

<!-- keep as a structure with unique element names -->
<strings>
  <heading>This is a test.</heading>
  <greetings>
    <hello>Hello World!</hello>
    <bye>Goodbye World!</bye>
  </greetings>
</strings>

ColdFusion utility function (for example in a CFC component util.cfc):

<cffunction name="ReadResouceXml" returntype="struct" access="public" output="no">
  <cfargument name="path"   type="string" required="yes">
  <!--- internal use argument --->
  <cfargument name="xmlDoc" type="xml"    required="no">

  <cfset var xmlElem = "">
  <cfset var output  = StructNew()>

  <!--- read XML file from disk --->
  <cfif not StructKeyExists(arguments, "xmlDoc")>
    <cffile action="read" file="#ExpandPath(path)#" variable="xmlDoc" charset="UTF-8">
    <cfset xmlDoc = XmlParse(xmlDoc).XmlRoot>
  </cfif>      

  <!--- recursively convert XML to a CF struct --->
  <cfloop index="i" from="1" to="#ArrayLen(xmlDoc.XmlChildren)#">
    <cfset xmlElem = xmlDoc.XmlChildren[i]>
    <cfif ArrayLen(xmlElem.XmlChildren) gt 0>
      <cfset output[xmlElem.XmlName] = ReadResouceXml("", xmlElem)>
    <cfelse>
      <cfset output[xmlElem.XmlName] = xmlElem.XmlText>
    </cfif>
  </cfloop>
  <cfreturn output>
</cffunction>

Coldfusion usage:

<cfobject type="component" name="util" component="util">
<cfset strings = util.ReadResouceXml("resources/strings.xml")>

<cfoutput>
<h1>#strings.heading#</h1>
#strings.greetings.hello# - #strings.greetings.bye#
</cfoutput>