BackportEnglish (Apache Tomcat 10.1.54 API Documentation)
Description: declaration: package: org.apache.tomcat.buildutil.translate, class: BackportEnglish

# Class BackportEnglish

java.lang.Object
org.apache.tomcat.buildutil.translate.BackportBase
org.apache.tomcat.buildutil.translate.BackportEnglish

public class BackportEnglish extends BackportBase
Generates a set of English property files to back-port updates to a previous version. Where a key exists in the source and target versions the value is copied from the source to the target, overwriting the value in the target. The expectation is that the changes will be manually reviewed before committing them.

- ## Field Summary

  ### Fields inherited from class BackportBase

  `sourceEnglish, sourceTranslations, storageDir, targetEnglish, targetRoot, targetTranslations`

- ## Constructor Summary

  Constructors
  Modifier
  Constructor
  Description
  `protected`
  `BackportEnglish(String[] args)`

- ## Method Summary

  Modifier and Type
  Method
  Description
  `protected void`
  `execute()`
  `static void`
  `main(String... args)`

  ### Methods inherited from class Object

  `clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

- ## Constructor Details

  - ### BackportEnglish

    protected BackportEnglish(String[] args) throws IOException
    Throws:
      `IOException`

- ## Method Details

  - ### main

    public static void main(String... args) throws IOException
    Throws:
      `IOException`

  - ### execute

    protected void execute() throws IOException
    Specified by:
      `execute` in class `BackportBase`
    Throws:
      `IOException`