Question

I’m creating a simple program with the possibility to change the language and I would convert the list of properties in the file myBundle.properties in a String array.

This is the file myBundle.properties:

 #default
 test1=Hello1
 test2=Hello2
 test3=Hello3
 test4=Hello4
 test5=Hello5
 test6=Hello6

And this is the Java code:

import java.util.*;

class BundleTest {

    BundleTest() {
        String[] s = returnStringArray(Locale.ENGLISH);
        for(int i=0; i<s.length; i++) {
            System.out.println(s[i]);
        }
    }

    private String[] returnStringArray(Locale language) {
        try {
            ResourceBundle labels = ResourceBundle.getBundle("myBundle", language);
            Enumeration<String> keys = labels.getKeys();
            Vector v = new Vector();
            String key = null;
            while (keys.hasMoreElements()) {
                v.add(keys.nextElement());
            }
            String[] s = new String[v.size()];
            for(int i=0; i<s.length; i++) {
                s[i] = (String)v.elementAt(i);
            }
            return s;
        } catch (MissingResourceException mre) {
            System.out.println("Risorse della lingua non trovate!");
            return null;
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new BundleTest();
    }
}

But, surprisingly, when I execute the program it returns me the strings in a casual order. Why have Enumeration this strange behavior?

bash-4.1$ java BundleTest
test1
test6
test4
test5
test2
test3

Answer 1

I do not know the exact details of the ResourceBundle class, but when looking at your code example, it seems that it has key/value pairs.

This suggests that it stores its content in an HashMap. (Again, as I do not know ResounrceBundle, this is a hunch)
HashMap keys (and values) are unordered as they are stored on such a way that the value can be easily found for a given key.