Text localization with Javascript

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Category: Liferay

Published: Saturday, 14 September 2013 11:23

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Liferay provides a very useful text localization method, which can be used with LanguageUtil Java class (and its counterpart class UnicodeLanguageUtil) or with <liferay-ui:message/> taglib.

But how can we use the same method with Javascript? Let's see!

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Let's format file size

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Category: Liferay

Published: Sunday, 04 August 2013 10:54

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In a previous article (TextFormatter class) we have seen what is the class TextFormatter and how it works.

Now we'll see another method provided by this class, which can be used to make more human readable the size of a file or, more generally, any value that represents a size in bytes.

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EntityLocalServiceUtil: difference between getEntity and fetchEntity

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Category: Liferay

Published: Friday, 30 August 2013 23:43

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Working with Service Builder, you'll certainly notice a lot of useful methods exposed by the persistence class EntityLocalServiceUtil; among the various generated methods, there are two of them used to retrieve an instance of a single entity starting from the primary key: getEntity and fetchEntity.

But what's the difference between these two methods?

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Liferay TextFormatter class

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Category: Liferay

Published: Saturday, 03 August 2013 16:49

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Liferay, as you know, is full of utility classes to perform various functions; one of these classes is called TextFormatter and is extremely useful in the attribute names management, to conform to the standards imposed by Liferay.

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