Localization in SAP-MII Using UI5

Hi Everyone,

I went through this blog

Localization in SAP-MII Using UI5

Also suggested an improvement. Which went through several discussion so Mike asked me to start the discussion.

Harsh asked me a question:

I am trying localization using SAPUI5 and for the same reason I am trying to call resource bundle from META-INF in js file using the syntax you had provided above. But , I am getting below error while referring to the above syntax.

Error: resource URL '/XMII/Catalog?ObjectName=CustomerExamples/META-INF/Bundles/<Project>_<language>.properties&Mode=LOAD' has unknown type (should be one of .properties,.hdbtextbundle).

Please let me know if there is any fix to it or something that is missing in the above syntax.

I provided information:

Save this as irpt file

<SERVLET NAME="Catalog">

<HR>

Illuminator Content Here

<HR>

<PARAM NAME= "Mode" VALUE="LOAD">

<PARAM NAME= "ObjectName" VALUE="Default/META-INF/Bundles/Default.properties">

<PARAM NAME= "Stylesheet" VALUE="/XMII/CM/Default/XSL/metaInf.xsl">

</SERVLET>

Copy these GitHub Files:

ilyakharlamov/xslt_base64 · GitHub

You have to change the path of the files as per your server.

Now write the xsl as below at Path /XMII/CM/Default/XSL/metaInf.xsl:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"

  xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java"

      exclude-result-prefixes="java"

  xmlns:b64="<the path where you saved the GitHub files>">

  <xsl:output method="text" media-type="text/csv" encoding="UTF-8"/>

  <xsl:include href="base64.xsl"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">

  <xsl:for-each select="Rowsets">

  <xsl:for-each select="Rowset">

  <xsl:for-each select="Row[Name='Payload']/Value">

  <xsl:variable name="value" select="."></xsl:variable>

  <xsl:call-template name="b64:decode">

            <xsl:with-param name="base64String" select="$value"></xsl:with-param>

             </xsl:call-template>

  </xsl:for-each>

  </xsl:for-each>

  </xsl:for-each>

  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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You may need to correct the GitHub file for new line.

Now use the irpt file in the URL parameter.

Chirstian provided information:

Thanks for coming back and posting a more complete solution. I had hoped there was a way to do this without the base 64 conversion that I had not discovered.  

The Catalog service is undocumented by SAP and there have been some changes over the years. I recommend caution in using it this way in a production environment.

I think a better solution would be to ask SAP to make improvements to the MII localization infrastructure to accommodate UI5.

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I already sent a mail to SAP as a suggestion to make localization standard for using in UI5. But currently I am using the approach provided above. I also created a XSL file which does the base 64 conversion but that became a proprietary object for the client and I can not share that file here(My Managers asked me to write this here). So I gave the GitHub link which has GPL license.

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Thanks and regards,

Pradip