Re[2]: Parsing Property-Lists

[Manuel Guesdon]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 08:56:27 +0200 Philip Mötteli <Philip.Moetteli@tele2.ch> 
wrote:

 >| Am 12.04.2004 um 05:29 schrieb Richard Frith-Macdonald:
 >| > On 11 Apr 2004, at 19:11, Philip Mötteli wrote:
 >| >> I have a very simple 'Localizable.strings':
 >| >>
 >| >> "test"="Test";
 >| >>
 >| >>
 >| >> When I try to use it, I have a very weird error:
 >| >>
 >| >>         <NSException: 8740f68> NAME:NSGenericException REASON:Parse 
 >failed 
 >| >> at line 1 (char 7) - extra data after parsed string
 >| >>
 >| >>
 >| >> The parsing goes through the following steps (backtrace):
 >| >>
 >| >> #0  parsePlItem at NSString.m:5355
 >| >> #1  0x40162a80 in GSPropertyList at NSString.m:5644
 >| >> #2  0x4015f7f4 in -[NSString propertyList] at NSString.m:4494
 >| >> #3  0x400f1dea in -[NSDictionary initWithContentsOfFile:] at 
 >| >> NSDictionary.m:510
 >| >> #4  0x400f221e in +[NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:] at 
 >| >> NSDictionary.m:591
 >| >
 >| > The problem is that you are trying to treat your file as if it 
 >| > contains data in property list format ... which it doesn't.
 >| >
 >| > Your file is in 'strings' format (and you have correctly given it a 
 >| > 'strings' extension rather than the '.plist' extension conventionally 
 >| > used for files in property list format.
 >| >
 >| > The OpenStep API specifies a method of NSString for parsing strings 
 >| > files ...
 >| > -propertyListFromStringsFileFormat, and an NSDictionary method for 
 >| > producing strings file format data ... -descriptionInStringsFileFormat
 >| 
 >| 
 >| Thanks!
 >| Actually, I'm coming from
 >| 
 >|         [[[WOApplication application] resourceManager] stringForKey:aKey 
 >| inTableNamed:@"Localizable" withDefaultValue:nil 
 >| inFramework:GSWFramework_all languages:[[self session] languages]]
 >| 
 >| 
 >| I remember, that this used to work with Apple's WO, but now with GSW I 
 >| have this problem. Does that mean, that we have to change our approach 
 >| in GSW?

Yes. In fact, I've never noticed the difference between .strings and .plist