[2.0] i18n: Setting the default language

[Ólafur Gauti Guðmundsson]

Hi all,
In Play 1.2 I could set switch the application language by doing
Lang.set("en");
Is there a similar way to set the current language centrally in Play
2.0?
Or is the only way to store the selected language in a cookie, and
supply it as an argument to all Messages.get() calls?

Thanks for your help!
Best regards,
OGG

[Julien Richard-Foy]

In play 2 the default language is the one you use to write your conf/messages file (with no extension)

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[Ólafur Gauti Guðmundsson]

Hi, thanks for your reply.
The thing is, I want to allow the user to switch the application to
another language.
In this case, it looks like I have to pass a new Lang(...) to each
call to Messages.get()?

This is why I was wandering whether I can override the language
centrally at runtime (as I could in Play 1.2: Lang.set(...))?

Thanks,
OGG

On Feb 27, 2:19 am, Julien Richard-Foy <j...@zenexity.com> wrote:
> In play 2 the default language is the one you use to write your conf/messages file (with no extension)
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[Guillaume Bort]

Are you using the Java or the Scala API? In the Scala API you can
define your own implicit Lang with an higher priority.

2012/2/27 Ólafur Gauti Guðmundsson <oli....@gmail.com>:

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[Ólafur Gauti Guðmundsson]

I am using the Java API. Are there any plans to allow this
functionality for Java as well?

Thanks!
OGG

On Feb 27, 11:10 am, Guillaume Bort <guillaume.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you using the Java or the Scala API? In the Scala API you can
> define your own implicit Lang with an higher priority.
>

> 2012/2/27 Ólafur Gauti Guðmundsson <oli.ga...@gmail.com>:

[Guillaume Bort]

Yes, please report the issue in the bug tracker.

2012/2/27 Ólafur Gauti Guðmundsson <oli....@gmail.com>:

[Federico Tolomei]

+1 for this.

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[Ólafur Gauti Guðmundsson]

Great, thanks! I've created a ticket:
https://play.lighthouseapp.com/projects/82401/tickets/174-20-i18n-add-ability-to-define-implicit-lang-for-java-api

On Feb 27, 11:50 am, Guillaume Bort <guillaume.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, please report the issue in the bug tracker.
>

> 2012/2/27 Ólafur Gauti Guðmundsson <oli.ga...@gmail.com>:

[Stefan]

+1

in my opionion this is one of the most important missing parts, since it keeps me from developing multilingual pages. please fix that :)

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[Henrik Binggl]

Any news concerning schedule for this feature?

[Julien Richard-Foy]

You can easily write your own code handling that. See e.g.
https://github.com/julienrf/chooze/blob/master/app/controllers/CookieLang.scala

[Wim De Clercq]

Can't do such thing with Java though.

I think the best you can do for now is create your own Messages class which extends - or delegates to - the real Messages class.
And in your own class you can get the language from the session / pathvariable / wherever you keep it, pass it on the the real class and return the result.