arb-editor

An extension to help you in editing .arb files, used for localization of applications.

Features

• JSON schema for .arb validation.
• Snippets for string, stringWithArgs, plural, and select messages.
• Full support of ICU MessageFormat syntax.
• Diagnostics and Quick fixes.

Sample .arb file

{
    "@@locale": "en",
    "@@x-template": "path/to/template.arb",
    "@@context": "HomePage",
    "helloAndWelcome": "Welcome {firstName} von {lastName}!",
    "@helloAndWelcome": {
        "description": "Initial welcome message",
        "placeholders": {
            "firstName": {
                "type": "String"
            },
            "lastName": {
                "type": "String"
            }
        }
    },
    "newMessages": "test {newMessages, plural, =0{No new messages} =1 {One new message} two{Two new Messages} other {test {newMessages} new messages}}",
    "@newMessages": {
        "type": "text",
        "description": "Number of new messages in inbox.",
        "placeholders": {
            "newMessages": {
                "type": "int"
            }
        }
    }
}

Customize

Escaping quotes can be turned off by including a l10n.yaml file with the line:

use-escaping: false

To set a template file, either set the @@x-template element in your arb file

"@@x-template": "path/to/template.arb"

or set a file to be the template in the l10n.yaml using:

template-arb-file: path/to/template.arb

You can suppress specific diagnostics warnings by adding into settings.json:

"arb-editor.suppressedWarnings": string | string[]

The accepted values are:

• "all" - suppress all warnings
• An array containings the warinings ids to be suppressed:

[
    "mismatched_brackets",
    "metadata_for_missing_key",
    "invalid_key",
    "missing_metadata_for_key",
    "invalid_placeholder",
    "missing_other_in_icu",
    "unknown_icu_message_type",
    "placeholder_without_metadata",
    "missing_placeholder_with_metadata",
    "missing_messages_from_template",
]