In wicket is there a way to read localized properties directly?

Question

Among others I have these two properties with differing values in all my localized .properties files:

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StateShow=true
StateLabel=State
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When the user picks a country protected void onUpdate(AjaxRequestTarget target) is called and the following lines among others in that method work:

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getSession().setLocale(locale);
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stateLabel.setDefaultModel(new StringResourceModel("StateLabel",target.getPage(),null));
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That is to say that in US it says State, in Canada it says Province, in Japan it says Prefecture, etc. But the following line does not work:

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showState       = Boolean.getBoolean(new StringResourceModel("StateShow",       target.getPage(),null).getString());
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That is to say when the correct .properties file says StateShow=true showState is always false.

Is there anyway to accurately access localized properties that aren't being used as Models?

Answer 1

Your problem is probably not be related to Wicket but to your usage of Boolean.getBoolean(String) which tries to find a system property with the given name (check the javadoc).

So I would assume that your StringResourceModel correctly returns the value "true". Then Boolean.getBoolean(String) tries to find a the system property named "true" which probably doesn't exist and thus returns false.

You probably want to use Boolean.parseBoolean(String) instead.