i18n Support in Model

[artzstudio]

How is i18n integrated with Model (i.e. validation translations)? I see support for it in the code and clearly Geddy supports it, but this does not appear to be documented.

[mde]

I18n is implemented with the very small i18n library in the Utilities module: https://github.com/mde/utilities/blob/master/lib/i18n.js

When used as part of Geddy, we load up all these locales for Model's validations:

https://github.com/geddy/geddy/tree/master/gen/locales

We should probably pull these out into a separate repo that is in an obvious, documented place, and can be installed directly into Model when used outside of Ged.

[artzstudio]

It would definitely be ideal to break it out to provide flexibility for those that have their own favorite i18n lib. Since I'm still early in my project I'll give yours a go -- however it could also use some docs. ;)

Update: Just realized since Model is a dependency I don't have a way to share the i18n module instance and its loaded locales, guess this is what you meant by being "installed directly into Model".

My Plan B is to simply take the [[model.validatesPresent]] output and translate that from the view, unless this issue happily fits into your current priorities. Thanks!

[mde]

The parametric replacement (e.g., i18n.getText('model.validatesFormat', {name: name}, locale);) would make translating after the fact probably more irritating than just bootstrapping the i18n module. The Geddy code that loads the locales is actually really simple:

https://github.com/geddy/geddy/blob/master/lib/init/i18n.js

It's just passing JS objects to the i18n.loadLocale method.

[artzstudio]

Rookie mistake, I was requiring a different version of your utilities library than the one in Model, and thus was not sharing the same module. Thanks man!

[mde]

Glad it's sorted!