[egit-dev] Localized Messages in Exceptions

["Baumgart, Jens" <jens.baumgart@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

 

on externalizing strings in EGit (see also http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,332) I got some doubts how to deal with translatable texts in exceptions:

 

Is it ok that objects of the same exception type sometimes provide localized messages and sometimes not?

 

Example:

 

throw new IllegalStateException("Error occurred during remote repo listing, no refs available")

 

This message could be localized, but in most cases IllegalStateException contains a hard coded technical string as message.

 

The same question arises for JGit exceptions like TransportException.  Does TransportException.getMessage always return a localized message?