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Hi,
I,ve been looking at the i18next plugin and I was wondering what you need to do about apps populated by db, I assume I will need a collection for each language, how does it switch collections, or have I got it wrong

thx

Hello,

You can specify dynamic collection name for read service with URL: {database_url}/collections/{collectionName}/
collectionName is a request-parameter to which pass the collection name.

Thx Nikita,
have you any docs on this, or any guidelines as how to do this in apperyio with the I18next plugin..
I can understand how components are marked,
but cant find anything on how to use a collection read service for example and switch the collection to the collection that matches the device language, if that makes any sense

Hi,

You can get system language in this way:
var lng = navigator.language || navigator.userLanguage;
this lng variable pass as request-parameter. This allows to use different collections for different languages.

Maybe I wasn't clear on my question.

as far as I can understand in the tutorial the plugin js gets the users device language,
and I need to reference and mark components with text for each language and save in the locals file.

it must be in this file I need to reference the collection to use.

so I am looking for an example of how to reference this collection which is english
{database_url}/collections/meatpizza/

to this collection which is spanish
{database_url}/collections/esmeatpizza/

thx

Hi,

Please look at the first answer:
You can specify dynamic collection name for read service with URL: {database_url}/collections/{collectionName}/
collectionName is a request-parameter to which pass the collection name.

You should pass the string "meatpizza" in request-parameter collectionName, then appery.io will return "meatpizza" collection.

"meatpizza" is already returned with this parameter {database_url}/collections/meatpizza/

as the 1 language the is setup in
if I ad the plugin, mark all components when the plugin detects spanish, the components will be in spanish

how to I reference or markthis collection with this URL
{database_url}/collections/esmeatpizza/
when the plugin detects spanish as the device language

or have I misunderstood how the plugin works

cheers

Hello,

Most likely you haven't understood how this plugin works. You should create json-files with content:
component name : translation
(cf. http://docs.appery.io/tutorials/build...).
and you shouldn't create different services. If it's necessary for you, you should just execute
one or another service for each language, or as we've recommended earlier - one service for all the languages.

Thx Nikita,
your right, I really dont understand the capabilities of this plugin

this is what I thought
this plugin is a bind translator
all translations for all languages must be in the locals file for each language with all components identified, marked and the translation, this bit I get.

my app currently runs 13 read services
the way I understood it was,
I would need to make 13 collections for in each language

the mapping is already done for the english language and I thought by referencing for eg. the spanish version of 1 collection, this collection would be used instead of the english version.

sorry about this, but theres very little info on this plugin anywhere

Hi,

Do you have more question?