I18n via Renderer

[Colin MacDonald <co...@templarcorp.com>]

So, what's the normal way of setting up log4j to display locale-specific
messages?  I've messed around a bit with creating a Renderer to do it, but I
haven't been able to get that to work.

The idea was to have a custom Renderer for java.lang.String, so you could
have a normal logger call like:
    debugLog.error( "Something has gone wrong here" );
The Renderer class would take the message string and use it as a key for a
ResourceBundle.  You could have a debugMessages_de.properties file with an
entry like:
    Something has gone wrong here=Etwas ist los
(Sorry if that's wrong - my German is pretty minimal)
and the Renderer would spit out the translated message string.

I'm not sure if this approach is clever or grotesquely hackish.  ;)

I added a line to my log4j.properties file like:
    log4j.renderer.java.lang.String=my.RendererClass
The renderer is getting loaded and instantiated, but its doRender(Object)
method is never getting called.

Any ideas?  Thanks!

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