ResourceBundle not using Locale

[todd runstein]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong - this seems very straightforward. I have simple internationalization code and I'm trying to override the Locale being used. However, using the PropertyResourceBundle.getBundle(String, Locale), the Locale seems to be ignored.

Here's the test class:

import java.util.Locale;
 
import junit.framework.TestCase;
import static TextLabel.*;
 
public class TextLabelTest extends TestCase {
 
TextLabel textLabel;

@Override
protected void setUp() throws Exception {
super.setUp();

textLabel = new TextLabel();
 
}

public void testEnglish_WithLocale() {
Locale.setDefault(new Locale("fr", "CA"));
assertEquals("Oui", textLabel.getString(YES));
assertEquals("Non", textLabel.getString(NO));

Locale.setDefault(new Locale("en", "US"));
assertEquals("Yes", textLabel.getString(YES));
assertEquals("No", textLabel.getString(NO));

//Make sure the system is using the wrong locale
Locale.setDefault(new Locale("fr", "CA"));
assertEquals("Yes", textLabel.getString(YES, LANG_ENGLISH, COUNTRY_US));
assertEquals("No", textLabel.getString(NO, LANG_ENGLISH, COUNTRY_US));
}

}    

Here's the TextLabel class:

  
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.PropertyResourceBundle;
import java.util.ResourceBundle;
 
public class TextLabel {
 
public static final String BASE_FILENAME = "Text_Labels";

public static final String LANG_ENGLISH = "en";
public static final String LANG_FRENCH = "fr";

public static final String COUNTRY_US = "US";
public static final String COUNTRY_CANADA = "CA";

public static final String YES = "Yes";
public static final String NO = "No";

public String getString(String key) {
return getString(key, null, null);
}

public String getString(String key, String language, String country) {

Locale locale;

if (language == null || country == null) {
locale = Locale.getDefault();
} else {
locale = new Locale(language, country);
}
System.out.println("Locale = " + locale);

ResourceBundle bundle = PropertyResourceBundle.getBundle(BASE_FILENAME, locale);
System.out.println("Bundle using " + bundle.getLocale());

return bundle.getString(key);
}
}  

Pretty straightforward. However, the output generated is:
Locale = en_US
Bundle using
Locale = en_US
Bundle using
Locale = en_US
Bundle using fr_CA

I would expect the last one to say "Bundle using en_US". I'm running the test inside Eclipse 3.3.0 using Sun's 1.5.0.13 JVM. Any ideas why the Locale is being ignored?

Thanks in advance!

[todd runstein]

I solved it. I had 2 properties files: Text_Labels.properties and Text_Labels_fr_CA.properties. Simply adding a file named Text_Labels_en.properties (which matches Text_Labels.properties) fixes the problem!

[Bert Bates]

just so that everyone gets the idea, let's slide this (probably already finished) thread over to the intermediae forum.