Create a dictionary like array

Charly

Hello,

I would like to store this data into an array:

[Error1],[Lang1,Text]
[Error1],[Lang2,Text]
[Error2],[Lang1,Text]

So I have an error id and I would like to have an array or other object to quickly find the error and select the correct text depending on the language.

And if needed I just need to add a new language and text for an error I do not need to change the code where it is used to find the correct text.

Any idea's ?

Kind regards,

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Danatas Gervi17y ago
Accepted answer

You can write your own class

public class TranslationKeeper

{

            public TranslationKeeper()

            {

                        Translations = new Dictionary<string,string>();

            }

            public Dictionary<string, string> Translations;

}

And use it in dictionary

Dictionary<string, TranslationKeeper> AllErrorsMessages = new Dictionary<string, TranslationKeeper>();

Possible code to fill in:



TranslationKeeper oneTranslation = new TranslationKeeper();

oneTranslation.Translations.Add("RUS", "Oshibka");

oneTranslation.Translations.Add("ENG", "Error");

AllErrorsMessages.Add("Error1", oneTranslation);

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Charly17y ago
Thank you both for your answer. I learned some new stuff today.
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Jorge L Fernandez17y ago
This is a similar approach than Danatas Gervi reply. Did not realized the questions was already answered. Good luck
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Jorge L Fernandez17y ago
Hi,

You can use this approach for perfomance. A class which stores every Error, the ErrorStore and an Error class which actually represents each error with its specific messages by language. Implementation in both classes will run fast.

public class Error
    {
        public string ErrorID {get; set;}

        Dictionary errors;

        public Error(string ErrorID)
        {
            this.ErrorID = ErrorID;
            this.errors = new Dictionary();
        }

        public void InsertError(string language, string message)
        {
            // INSERT ERROR ONLY IF IS NOT INSERTED YET
            if(!this.errors.ContainsKey(language))
                this.errors.Add(language,message);
        }

        public string GetError(string language)
        {
            if(this.errors.ContainsKey(language))
                return this.errors[language];

            return String.Empty;
        }
    }

    public class ErrorStore
    {
        Dictionary errors;

        public ErrorStore()
        {
            this.errors = new Dictionary();
        }

        public Error GetError(string errorID)
        {
            if(this.errors.ContainsKey(errorID))
                return this.errors[errorID];

            return null;
        }

        public void InsertError(string errorId, string language, string msg)
        {
            Error error = null;

            if (this.errors.ContainsKey(errorId))
            {
                // ERROR ALREADY EXISTS
                error = this.errors[errorId];
                error.InsertError(language,msg);

            }
            else
            {
                // CREATE NEW AND INSERT IN PRIVATE DICTIONARY
                error = new Error(errorId);
                error.InsertError(language, msg);
                this.errors.Add(errorId, error);
            }
        }
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Danatas Gervi17y ago
And so, if you want to get the translation,

string TranslatedMessage = GetTranslationOf("Error1", "RUS", AllErrorsMessages);

use function:

private static string GetTranslationOf(string MessageKey, string LangCode,Dictionary<string, TranslationKeeper> AllErrorsMessages)

{

return AllErrorsMessages[MessageKey].Translations[LangCode];

}

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