[iOS] Custom localized string file in iOS App

[ktronic80]

Hi,

I'm currently automating an iOS app which has multiple files for localized strings. The app project structure looks like this:
<project_root>/Strings/en.lproj/Localizable.strings
<project_root>/Strings/en.lproj/appname.strings
<project_root>/Strings/de.lproj/Localizable.strings
<project_root>/Strings/de.lproj/appname.strings
...

All stings are in the appname.strings file. The Localizable.strings file is just there to get push messages properly working, it just contains one string.

I'm using the Appium java client for my tests and want to use some information form the string files. But the AppiumDriver getAppStrings methods just returns the content of the Localizable.strings string file.

As far as I can see on the Appium server side in ios.js file parseLocalizableStrings method just consider the Localizable.strings file.

Is it somehow possible to specify a file different from Localizable.strings to be parsed as app string file?

I compiled the Appium java client from the current master.
I'm using Appium verions 1.3.0

[Jonahss]

It's not currently possible, but looks pretty easy to add.
You found the right place in the code, do you think this is something you would be willing to write and contribute as a pull request?

What do you think would be the most useful way to get the strings? Either the method could take the filename as an argument, or maybe it could return ALL the strings by concatenating the files. What do you think?

[ktronic80]

Yes I can add this.

I would prefer the method to specify the filename as parameter. I talked to an iOS dev and he told me thats possible to have the same key in multiple files e.g. in the Localizable.strings and the appname.strings and somehow you can decide in the app which to use. Currently the request returns one json object with all key value pairs. How should that be handled in the case of multiple keys?

If no file name is passed as parameter I would just return the content from Localizable.strings this would preserve the current behavior.

[Jonahss]

I like it. Specify the file name as an argument, and the default is the same as the current behavior.

Need any other help?

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