This command line tool to format and sort Java message properties files in the same way as PhraseApp.

• You need consistently formatted .properties over all your projects.
• You want to reduce merge conflicts.
• You want to delete unused message keys in phraseapp.
• You like to do a phraseapp pull without troubles.
• You use the GitHub Sync.

Popup_Messages_Alter = Alert
Popup_Messages_Warning = Be careful
# Some comment for this email 
Settings_User_Email_Title = Email
Settings_User_FirstName = First Name
Settings_User_LastName = Last Name
Settings_Window_Title  = Title

Warning: Omitting duplicate key (With the same value): Double_Key_With_SameValue= 'Value_1'

Error: Found duplicate key, with different values:
Double_Key_With_DifferentValue= 'Value_2'

ℹ For details check out the MessagePropertyParserTest.

It can read the phraseapp.yml file to search for .properties-files listed there. So you can simply call prosort your project root dir to sort all configured message properties.

Sort & Format all files in the current directory:
ℹ If a phraseapp.yml is present in this dir, only files listed there will be processed.

propsort

Sort & Format specific files:

propsort file1.properties
propsort file1.properties file2.properties
propsort path/file1.properties path/file2.properties

Compare folders of property files:

propsort -compare folder1 folder2

Backup files to temp dir:

propsort -backup $PATH_TO_REPO

$PATH_TO_REPO: Folder which contains the message property files, or the phraseapp.yml.

Delete remote keys which are not present in the local message property files.

propsort -backup $PATH_TO_REPO
phraseapp $PATH_TO_REPO
propsort -delete-unused -simulate  $PATH_TO_REPO
propsort -delete-unused $PATH_TO_REPO

$PATH_TO_REPO: Folder which contains the message property files, or the phraseapp.yml.