Apply Internationalization to Schema

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An internationalized Analyzer for MongoDB application would have a schema for each language, where the caption of each object appears in the local language. For example, the [Product] dimension would have the caption "Product" in English and "Produit" in French.

It is not a good idea to translate the actual names of the schema objects, because then the MDX statements would need to be changed also. All that you need to change is the caption. Every schema object (schema, cube, dimension, hierarchy, level, measure, named set) has a caption attribute, and user interfaces such as JPivot and Pentaho Analyzer display the caption rather than the real name. Additional things to keep in mind include:

Every schema object has a description attribute.
A hierarchy can have an allMemberCaption attribute as display value of the "All" member.
For the schema, you can set a display value of the measures dimension by the measuresCaption attribute.
A calculated member has the properties CAPTION and DESCRIPTION that appear as caption and description if the member is a member of the Measures dimension.

One way to create an internationalized application is to create a copy of the schema file for each language, but these are difficult to maintain. A better way is to use the LocalizingDynamicSchemaProcessor class to perform dynamic substitution on a single schema file.

Localize Schema Processor

First, write your schema using variables as values for caption, description, allMemberCaption, and measuresCaption attributes.

<Schema ... measuresCaption="%{foodmart.measures.caption}">
<Dimension name="Store" caption="%{foodmart.dimension.store.caption}" description="%{foodmart.dimension.store.description}">
<Hierarchy hasAll="true" allMemberName="All Stores" allMemberCaption="%{foodmart.dimension.store.allmember.caption =All Stores}" primaryKey="store_id"  caption="%{foodmart.hierarchy.store.country.caption}" description="%{foodmart.hierararchy.store.country.description}>
<Table name="store"/>
<Level name="Store Country" column="store_country" uniqueMembers="true" caption="%{foodmart.dimension.store.country.caption}" description="%{foodmart.dimension.store.country.description}"/>
<Level name="Store State" column="store_state" uniqueMembers="true" caption="%{foodmart.dimension.store.state.caption}" description="%{foodmart.dimension.store.state.description}"/>
<Level name="Store City" column="store_city" uniqueMembers="false" caption="%{foodmart.dimension.store.city.caption}" description="%{foodmart.dimension.store.city.description}"/>
<Level name="Store Name" column="store_name" uniqueMembers="true" caption="%{foodmart.dimension.store.name.caption}" description="%{foodmart.dimension.store.name.description}">
<Property name="Store Type" column="store_type" caption="%{foodmart.dimension.store. name.property_type.caption}" description="%{foodmart.dimension.store. name.property_type.description}"/>
<Property name="Store Manager" column="store_manager" caption="%{foodmart.dimension.store. name.property_manager.caption}" description="%{foodmart.dimension.store. name.property_manager.description}"/>
<Property name="Store Sqft" column="store_sqft" type="Numeric" caption="%{foodmart.dimension.store. name.property_storesqft.caption}" description="%{foodmart.dimension.store. name.property_storesqft.description}"/>
<Property name="Grocery Sqft" column="grocery_sqft" type="Numeric"/>
<Property name="Frozen Sqft" column="frozen_sqft" type="Numeric"/>
<Property name="Meat Sqft" column="meat_sqft" type="Numeric"/>
<Property name="Has coffee bar" column="coffee_bar" type="Boolean"/>
<Property name="Street address" column="store_street_address" type="String"/>
</Level>
</Hierarchy>
</Dimension>

<Cube name="Sales" caption="%{foodmart.cube.sales.caption}" description="%{foodmart.cube.sales.description}">
...
<DimensionUsage name="Store" source="Store" foreignKey="store_id"  caption="%{foodmart.cube.sales.name.caption}" description="%{foodmart.cube.sales.name.description}"/>
...
<Measure name="Unit Sales" column="unit_sales" caption="%{foodmart.cube.sales.measure.unitsales.caption}" description="%{foodmart.cube.sales.measure.unitsales.description}"/>
</Cube>
</Schema>

As usual, the default caption for any cube, measure, dimension or level without a caption attribute is the name of the element. A hierarchy's default caption is the caption of its dimension; for example, the [Store] hierarchy has no caption defined, so it inherits the caption attribute from its parent, the [Store] dimension.

Next, add the dynamic schema processor and locale to your connect string.

Provider=mondrian; Locale=en_US; DynamicSchemaProcessor=-mondrian.i18n.LocalizingDynamicSchemaProcessor; Jdbc=-jdbc:mysql://localhost/foodmart; JdbcUser=¬foodmart; JdbcPassword=-foodmart; Catalog=¬/WEB-INF/FoodMart.mondrian.xml

Now, for each locale you wish to support, provide a resource file named locale_{locale}.properties.

# locale.properties: Default resources
foodmart.measures.caption=Measures
foodmart.dimension.store.country.caption=Store Country
foodmart.dimension.store.name.property_type.column= store_type
foodmart.dimension.store.country.member.caption= store_country
foodmart.dimension.store.name.property_type.caption =Store Type
foodmart.dimension.store.name.caption =Store Name
foodmart.dimension.store.state.caption =Store State
foodmart.dimension.store.name.property_manager.caption =Store Manager
foodmart.dimension.store.name.property_storesqft.caption =Store Sq. Ft.
foodmart.dimension.store.allmember.caption =All Stores
foodmart.dimension.store.caption =Store
foodmart.cube.sales.caption =Sales
foodmart.dimension.store.city.caption =Store City
foodmart.cube.sales.measure.unitsales =Unit Sales

and

# locale_hu.properties: Resources for the 'hu' locale.
foodmart.measures.caption=Hungarian Measures
foodmart.dimension.store.country.caption=Orsz\u00E1g
foodmart.dimension.store.name.property_manager.caption =\u00C1ruh\u00E1z vezet\u0151
foodmart.dimension.store.country.member.caption =store_country_caption_hu
foodmart.dimension.store.name.property_type.caption =Tipusa
foodmart.dimension.store.name.caption =Megnevez\u00E9s
foodmart.dimension.store.state.caption =\u00C1llam/Megye
foodmart.dimension.store.name.property_type.column =store_type_caption_hu
foodmart.dimension.store.name.property_storesqft.caption =M\u00E9ret n.l\u00E1b
foodmart.dimension.store.allmember.caption =Minden \u00C1ruh\u00E1z
foodmart.dimension.store.caption =\u00C1ruh\u00E1z
foodmart.cube.sales.caption =Forgalom
foodmart.dimension.store.city.caption =V\u00E1ros
foodmart.cube.sales.measure.unitsales =Eladott db