Generate model for dictionary items

[FransdeJong]

At Codegarden I had a nice discussion with @clausjensen and @zpqrtbnk about using modelsbuilder to generate a class with all the dictionary items. This gets rid of all the strings in the views.

Things we discussed are:

• The models should be generated with a special generate button and not on save (kinda forgot the reason @zpqrtbnk ?)
• The class should contain a method that could take culture and a fallback string as parameter
• Modelsbuilder is kind of prepared for this to be implemented.

This would mean we could get the dictionary items strongly types and get errors when you make a typo.

A Nice to have would be if you have nested items they would be nested in the class as well? For example:

Dictionary -- Forms ---- Next

Code DictionaryClass.Forms.Next()

How can we get this request to a state where HQ and or the community can pick this up?

[FransdeJong]

Linked issue as per Stephans request: https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/issues/5280

[clausjensen]

@FransdeJong The reason being that when you generate models, you app will restart (since it's generating code .. it's kinda like what you see happening with modelsbuilder) .. and it can be a pain to work with if you need to edit multiple things and don't really care about the generation to be done until you have done all of your batch of changes.

Thanks for adding the issue here so it can get some attention 😃

I'll mark it as up for grabs for now and point people in the direction of the repo where it will need to be done: https://github.com/zpqrtbnk/Zbu.ModelsBuilder

[azure-devops-sync[bot]]

This item has been added to our backlog AB#1107

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[rbottema]

I'm still interested in a feature like this, what would need to happen (and where) to implement this?