Hi,
I am developing a website that contains mainly multilingual content.
There were some questions and ideas on this list on how to achieve
it, so I thought I would share mine and see if anyone else finds it
useful. I have a working prototype, although not ready for production
use yet.
An example will explain how I use it. Take a really minimal Category
model:
class Category(models.Model):
# First, some fields that do not need translations
creator = models.ForeignKey(User)
created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
# And now the translatable fields
class Translation:
"""
The definition of translation model.
The multilingual machinery will automatically add these to the
Category class:
* get_name(language_id=None)
* set_name(value, language_id=None)
* get_description(language_id=None)
* set_description(value, language_id=None)
* name and description properties using the methods above
"""
name = models.CharField(blank=True, null=False, maxlength=250)
description = models.TextField(blank=True, null=False)
def __str__(self):
# note that you can use name and description fields as usual
return self.name
class Admin:
# again, field names just work
list_display = ('name', 'description')
After defining such a model you access translated fields like this:
c = Category.objects.all()[0]
# get the category name for the default language
c.name
# or
c.get_name()
# get the category name for language with id=2
c.get_name(2)
# change the name for language with id=2
c.set_name('nazwa', 2)
# change the name for the default language
c.name = 'nazwa'
# or
c.set_name('nazwa')
Internally the library creates another model, CategoryTranslation, that
maps Category and language identifiers to the translatable fields.
I don't want to paste all the code here, so I put the details, ideas,
the library itself and a sample application on my blog:
http://blog.elksoft.pl/index.php/2007/01/23/multilingual-content-in-django/
You can get the code here:
http://blog.elksoft.pl/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/multilingual_sample.zip
Let me know what you think about it.
-mk
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