Is it Possible to have more than one messages file in Play framework

Question

We have a site which will be used for two different clients. During first request the user will be asked to choose a client. Based on that text,labels and site content should be displayed.

Is it possible to have two messages file in Play framework and during session startup the messages file would be decided

As of my research we can have more than a file for each Locale, the messages will be get based on locale in the request.

Answer 1

No, it is not supported at the moment. You can easily do that either in a plugin(Look at MessagesPlugin ) or even using a bootstrap job with the @onApplicationStartup annotation

// From MessagesPlugin.java

//default languange messages
VirtualFile appDM = Play.getVirtualFile("conf/messages");
if(appDM != null && appDM.exists()) {
    Messages.defaults.putAll(read(appDM));
}

static Properties read(VirtualFile vf) {
    if (vf != null) {
        return IO.readUtf8Properties(vf.inputstream());
    }
    return null;
}