Localizing nested Info.plist keys

Question

I'm trying to localize a key in the InfoPlist.strings files which consists of a nested dictionary, like so:

baseKey = {
    secondDict = {
        "key" = "value";
    };
};

Is there any way I can access the inner key directly from the InfoPlist.strings file?

"baseKey.secondDict.key" = "newValue";

doesn't seem to work... Any ideas? I know I can replicate the dictionary structure in the strings file, but it contains some other information that I would prefer not to have in there.

That does not help, this is an InfoPlist.strings file, not Objective-C... — Harry Lachenmayer, Aug 23 '12 at 23:18
Also, what about localizing values inside arrays inside the plist? — divergio, Sep 25 '15 at 08:04

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

Apparently it works like this:

Replace "value" with some localization identifier newvalue_i18n_key.

Then, in InfoPlist.strings for each language, do this:

newvalue_i18n_key = "value";

This is more similar to how NSLocalizedString works. To my reading, this is not what Apple says in the official documentation regarding localizing plist files, but it is what Apple does in some sample code.

This question comes up with the same answer.

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 28 '15 at 10:27

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You can quickly access nested values this way, where "User" is the key to a NSDictionary and "Username" is a key to a NSString.

yourDict[@"User"][@"Username"]

answered Sep 28 '15 at 10:27

Leonardo

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This is true for accessing values from code. The question is asking about localizing values from the InfoPlist.strings file. – divergio Oct 02 '15 at 07:55

Localizing nested Info.plist keys

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