Question

when trying to create a i18n addon :

roo > addon create i18n –topLevelPackage com.gilles.photos.addon –locale ic –messageBundle i18n/messages_ic.properties

I get the message :

Command 'addon create i18n --topLevelPackage com.gilles.photos.addon --locale ic --messageBundle i18n/messages_ic.properties' was found but is not currently available (type 'help' then ENTER to learn about this command)

I try to follow the recommandations of this post :
http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?101843-addon-create-i18n-does-not-work

The advices of the guy are opaque to me. What does he mean by :

The addon create commands need to be
run in an empty directory

There are no clear answer available on the web.

Answer 1

What are you exactly trying to do? To install support for a given language; use

web mvc install language --code it

Where it is the code of the language. “Roo currently support six languages, and you can write an add-on language for others of your choice” – as of February, 2011. The command you were trying is the one that’s supposed to create an addon for a language which is not yet supported. (I don’t think that’s your intention)

EDIT after question clarification:

See roo documentation, section A.5.2.
What you have to do is

• acquire an existing messages_xx.properties (checkout roo source and find them here: ..\addon-web-mvc-jsp\src\main\resources\org\springframework\roo\addon\web\mvc\jsp\i18n\languages)
• from one of these files, create the _ic.properties.
• crate a subdirectory called i18n in an empty directory, place messages_ic.properties there
• issue the command you tried: addon create i18n --topLevelPackage foo.bar --locale ic --messageBundle i18n/messages_ic.properties