Are Swift Packages supported by String Catalogs?

Hi @kernelpop can you please mention your Swift Package Setup? A sample project would have been very helpful!!

This isn't working for me. I followed the example given in the video: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10155/?time=1831

And it doesn't detect the default localization, so just shows an empty table. Tools version is 5.9

I even tried renaming the table, so it wouldn't conflict with the main application's Localizable table with no success.

// Catalogs file is then FakeModule.xcstrings
public func printModuleInfo() {
    
    let statement = String(localized: "TestString", table: "FakeModule")
    log.info("\(statement)")
}

Here is the package manifest:

// swift-tools-version: 5.9
// The swift-tools-version declares the minimum version of Swift required to build this package.

import PackageDescription


let package = Package(
    name: "FakeModule",
    defaultLocalization: "en",
    platforms: [
        .iOS(.v16)
    ],
    products: [
        // Products define the executables and libraries a package produces, making them visible to other packages.
        .library(
            name: "FakeModule",
            targets: ["FakeModule"]),
    ],
    targets: [
        // Targets are the basic building blocks of a package, defining a module or a test suite.
        // Targets can depend on other targets in this package and products from dependencies.
        .target(
            name: "FakeModule",
            dependencies: [],
            path: "Sources"
        ),
        .testTarget(
            name: "FakeModuleTests",
            dependencies: ["FakeModule"]),
    ]
)

You have to add defaultLocalization to your Package.swift and it should work

let package = Package(
    name: "YourName",
    defaultLocalization: "en", <---
    platforms: [
      .iOS(.v16)
    ],
...

The solution could be a mix of some of these things. I just now discovered that there are 2 ways to import a local package. You can do it via importing from the project inspector and provide a Local... package, or you can just drag the Package.swift file into your project, so that it doesn't look like an installed package dependency, but another target in the "workspace" (which is not a workspace), and then these values start to get populated at build time.