Provide a uniform api between Simple, KeyValue and Chain stores

[kidpollo]

Provide a uniform api between Simple, KeyValue and Chain stores for public and private methods.

This is because a couple of gems I use out there need to call some of the internal methods of the simple store. When you try to use other gems configured with a Chain backend call those calls fail.

Basically I added the initialized?, translations and init_translations to the KeyValue and Chain stores.

Also added the functionality to be able to read back the translations from a key value store back to a hash as if it where read from the YAML files.

The gems that i know that would benefit from this would be i18n-js and babilu

[svenfuchs]

Whoops, commented over here kidpollo@3bc7ac9#commitcomment-601777 where I though I'd comment on the pull request. Maybe more coffee is in order.

So, I kinda like the idea.

I do think though that if we're supporting an api for 3rd party code then we should make it public.

Still pondering the exact api though.

[kidpollo]

Examples of where protected instance methods are used elsewhere:

https://github.com/fnando/i18n-js/blob/master/lib/i18n-js.rb#L127

https://github.com/toretore/babilu/blob/master/lib/i18n_extensions.rb#L11

My particular use case is because I want to use either of these gems with a Redis Store chained to the Simple store and neither Chain or Key Stores have the appropriate methods to be used with these either of these gems

[kidpollo]

Woops closed this by accident :P

[robotmay]

Any further updates on this? Just bumped into the issue with i18n-js; I'm probably going to work around it for now but this would be useful in the future.

[kidpollo]

I have not checked this out in a while. I will take a look at the most recent changes on the gem to see if things have changed.

Is there still an interest on providing uniform public apis for all backends?

[radar]

@kidpollo Yes I like this idea too. Could you please update your branch against the latest master? Will look at releasing this in 0.9.0.

[kidpollo]

Woah 5 years later still relevant?

[radar]

@kidpollo Do you think it would be relevant? Is it still useful to provide a uniform API?

[kidpollo]

@radar updated

[dillonwelch]

Still seems useful if you want to make another attempt at getting it cleaned up and merged.

[kidpollo]

Updated again

[radar]

Thank you for keeping this continuously up to date. I have a few comments for you, and then I think this is good to merge :)

[kidpollo]

Done @radar

[radar]

Thank you!

I will merge this on Monday when I am back at work.