Opening a message catalog file for a language that is not installed

• US 8,560,299 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2010
• Issued: 10/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2010
• Status: Expired

• Current Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Liu, Su, Ramsay, George F. III
• Primary Examiner(s): Desir, Pierre-Louis
• Assistant Examiner(s): Serrou, Abdelali
• Application Number:
  US12/770,020
• Publication Number:
  US 20110270602A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,265 Days
• Field of Search: 704/2, 704/3, 704 7- 9, 704/4, 704/270.1, 709/206, 705/51
• US Class Current: 704/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation

Abstract

A first computer system sends a request to a second computer system. The second computer system determines that the first computer system utilizes a message catalog file that is not installed on the second computer system. As a result, the second computer system sends a catalog request that requests the message catalog file. The second computer system receives the message catalog file and sends a response message from the second computer system to the first computer system using the received message catalog file.

Claims

1. A computer program product stored in a computer readable storage device, comprising functional descriptive material that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions comprising:

receiving a request from a first computer system at the information handling system, wherein the request includes a catalog identifier that identifies a message catalog file utilized by the first computer system to generate the request in a first language corresponding to a regional location of the first computer system;

determining, at the information handling system, that the catalog identifier does not correspond to a native message catalog file included on the information handling system, the native message catalog file corresponding to a second language that is different than the first language;

sending, from the information handling system, a catalog request to the first computer system that requests the message catalog file in response to determining that the catalog identifier does not correspond to the native message catalog file;

receiving the message catalog file from the first computer system in response to sending the catalog request; and

sending a response message to the first computer system using the received message catalog file.

2. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein:

the message catalog file includes information for the information handling system to generate the response message in the first language that corresponds to the regional location of the first computer system.

3. The computer program product of claim 2 wherein:

the information includes one or more message strings extracted by the information handling system that are written in the first language; and

the response message includes one or more of the extracted message strings.

4. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the functional descriptive material, when executed by the information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform further actions comprising:

extracting the catalog identifier from the client request;

determining whether a log file includes the extracted catalog identifier; and

performing the sending of the catalog request in response to determining that the log file fails to include the extracted catalog identifier.

5. The computer program product of claim 4 wherein, in response to receiving the message catalog file, the functional descriptive material, when executed by the information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform further actions comprising:

updating the log file to include the catalog identifier; and

storing the message catalog file in a memory storage area.

6. An information handling system comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory accessible by at least one of the processors;

a set of instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions of;

receiving a request from a first computer system at the information handling system, wherein the request includes a catalog identifier that identifies a message catalog file utilized by the first computer system to generate the request in a first language corresponding to a regional location of the first computer system;

determining at the information handling system based upon the catalog identifier, that the catalog identifier does not correspond to a native message catalog file included on the information handling system, the native message catalog file corresponding to a second language that is different than the first language;

sending a catalog request to the first computer system that requests the message catalog file in response to determining that the catalog identifier does not correspond to the native message catalog file;

receiving the message catalog file from the first computer system in response to sending the catalog request; and

sending a response message to the first computer system using the received message catalog file.

7. The information handling system of claim 6 wherein:

the message catalog file includes information for the information handling system to generate the response message in the first language that corresponds to the regional location of the first computer system.

8. The information handling system of claim 7 wherein:

the information includes one or more message strings extracted by the information handling system that are written in the first language; and

the response message includes one or more of the extracted message strings.

9. The information handling system of claim 6 wherein the set of instructions, when executed by one of the processors, further performs actions of:

extracting the catalog identifier from the client request;

determining whether a log file includes the extracted catalog identifier; and

performing the sending of the catalog request in response to determining that the log file fails to include the extracted catalog identifier.