ca1989
I have a local app A which is a dependency of a Phoenix project B.
A has translations, from A iex:
iex(1)> import A.Gettext
A.Gettext
iex(2)> Gettext.put_locale(A.Gettext, "de")
nil
iex(3)> dgettext("a", "Log in")
"Einloggen"
If I try to get the same translation from B, I got the wrong locale:
iex(4)> import A.Gettext
A.Gettext
iex(5)> Gettext.put_locale(A.Gettext, "de")
nil
iex(6)> dgettext("a", "Log in")
"Log in"
What am I missing here?
Thank you
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msimonborg
Two ideas to investigate come to my mind
Your
priv/translations directory is maybe being compiled to a non-existent path when you load the local dependency fromB, or not being compiled at all. TryGettext.known_locales(A.Gettext)fromBand if it returns[]then it can’t find your translations directory.If you have any gettext config in
a/config/*.exsthen it is not available inBand you’ll have to set that config inb/config/*.exsas well.msimonborg
I had a little time to test this out. If you are pulling in
Aas a local path dependency then yourprivtranslations directory should be compiled along with the dependency intob/_build/dev/lib/a/priv/path_to_locales/. If it’s not there, then my theory is that you compiled your PO files inA(mix compile.gettext) after the last compilation ofAas a dependency inB. Runningmix do deps.clean a, deps.update a, deps.compilefrom theBdirectory should fix that, and then it all should work.mayel
You probably need to use
put_locale("de")rather thanput_locale(A.Gettext, "de"), which will set the locale for all Gettext backends in the current process, rather than just the one fromA: Gettext — gettext v1.0.2ca1989
That is indeed the reason it was not working.
Thank you very much