resx-2-javascript

Want to use Python to translate .net .resx file into javascript? Then I got you.

Use

Get access to your resource translations in javascript.

The resx-2-js.py takes 3 arguments

1. the path your App_Resources folder or whatever directory contains all your resource files/folders (from this point on this will be refered to as the App_Resources folder)
2. the path to directory where you would like the javascript to be written 3)(optional) a javascript object that will contain each of the translations. defaults to Translations

How it works

The script recurses through the App_Resources file structure looking for resx files. When it finds one it looks to the filename to identifiy the culture name e.g. Test.es.resx which identifies the culture name as es. If There is no culture in the filename assumes en-US. After identifying the culture, gathers thats file's filepath relative to the App_Resources folder, (this will be used as the javascript object path) and collects each of the key value pairs in the resx file.

It script then writes to different javascript file for each language found. Each file contain the translations for that culture. The javascript object path mimics the folder structure, with each new object being initialized at the top of the file.

Example

if your resource files looked something like this

App_Resources

    -----> TestFolder
    
            Test.es.resx
              Key      | Value
              -----------------
              one      | uno
              two      | dos 
            
            Test.resx
              Key      | Value
              -----------------
              one      | one
              two      | two
      
    -----> NextFolder
    
            Test.ru.resx
              Key      | Value
              -----------------
              hello    | привет
            
            Test.resx
              Key      | Value
              -----------------
              hello    | hello

These files would be written to whatever directory was specified as the output directory

en-US.js
  Translate = {};
  Translate.TestFolder = {};
  Translate.NextFolder = {};
  Translate.TestFolder.one = "one";
  Translate.TestFolder.two = "two";
  Translate.NextFolder.hello = "hello";

es.js
  Translate = {};
  Translate.TestFolder = {};
  Translate.TestFolder.one = "uno";
  Translate.TestFolder.two = "dos";
  
ru.js
  Translate = {};
  Translate.NextFolder = {};
  Translate.NextFolder.hello = "привет";
  
If you specified the thrid argument than Translate would be whatever that was.

Notes

outputs as utf8 directory names file names and keys in resx files must all be valid javascript attribute names