Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 13 years ago

#10122 closed (wontfix)

setting locales for a single HTTP context

Reported by: Mathijs Dumon Owned by: Jacob
Component: Documentation Version: 1.0
Severity: Keywords: internationalisation, context, rendering, template, locale
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: yes
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Currently there's no good explenation on how to set the locale temporarily, eg. when rendering one template in a different language used in emails.
I recently needed this as my users trigger email notifications for other users. These should be translated into the recieving users' languages. The code I used was:

from django.utils.translation import check_for_language, activate, deactivate, to_locale, get_language, ugettext as _
from django.http import HttpRequest
from django.template.loader import render_to_string
from django.template import RequestContext
from django.contrib.sessions.middleware import SessionMiddleware

# 1. Get the current language: (if any)
cur_locale = to_locale(get_language())
# 2. create a request (& optionally add session middleware)
request = HttpRequest()
SessionMiddleware().process_request(request)
# 3. activate the users language: this loads the translation files
if check_for_language(target.user.language):
	activate(target.user.language)
locale = to_locale(get_language())
# 4. set the language code in the request (& optionally session)
request.LANGUAGE_CODE = locale
request.session['django_language'] = locale
# 5. translate any string here (passed into the template):
msg_dict = { 'title': _('This is the title and will be translated'), 'body': _('Message body') }
# 6. render template with correct language:
rendered = render_to_string("some_template.html",  msg_dict, RequestContext(request));
# 7. reset back to the old locale:
deactivate()

I don't know if there is any easier way to do this, if so let me know ;) if not, this could be included in the docs

Change History (8)

comment:1 by Mathijs Dumon, 16 years ago

I forgot to mention that target.user is my UserProfile class and the language property is thus the language preference for that user.

comment:2 by Mathijs Dumon, 16 years ago

milestone: post-1.0

comment:3 by Mathijs Dumon, 16 years ago

Needs documentation: set

comment:4 by (none), 16 years ago

milestone: post-1.0

Milestone post-1.0 deleted

comment:5 by Jacob, 16 years ago

milestone: 1.1
Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

comment:6 by Jacob, 16 years ago

Owner: changed from nobody to Jacob
Status: newassigned

comment:7 by Jacob, 16 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: assignedclosed

This is a pretty specific need, so it's not of interest to most doc readers. I"d suggest posting this on djangosnippets.org; that's a better place for it.

comment:8 by Jacob, 13 years ago

milestone: 1.1

Milestone 1.1 deleted

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