Question

We have a site which will be used for two different clients. During first request the user will be asked to choose a client. Based on that text,labels and site content should be displayed.

Is it possible to have two messages file in Play framework and during session startup the messages file would be decided

As of my research we can have more than a file for each Locale, the messages will be get based on locale in the request.

Answer 1

Solved this problem with below solution,

1. Created a class MessagesPlugIn which extends play.i18n.MessagesPlugin
2. Created a class Messages as like play.i18n.Messages
3. Had a static Map messaagesByClientID in Messages.java
4. Overridden onApplicationStart() in MessagesPlugIn
5. Loaded the Properties in messaagesByClientID as locales loaded in play.i18n.MessagesPlugin
6. Had a method get() in Messages.java, retrieve the property from messaagesByClientID based ClientId in the session. If the property is not available call get() in play.i18n.Messages

7.Created a Custom tag il8nTag and its used in HTML templates. il8nTag will invoke the methos in Messages.get().