formatjs-extract-cldr-data
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Utility library that extracts the CLDR data that's needed by the FormatJS libraries.
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FormatJS Extract CLDR Data
Utility library that extracts the CLDR data that's needed by the FormatJS libraries.
Usage
This package offers a function to extract the CLDR data needed by the FormatJS libraries via its default export. The data is returned as an object keyed by locale language tags; e.g., "en-US"
. This package leverages the fact that language tags are hierarchical and will only return the unique, de-duplicated data that's needed.
The following example shows how the locale hierarchy is used to return the unique data:
var extractData = require('formatjs-extract-cldr-data');
var data = extractData({
locales : ['en-US', 'en-GB'],
pluralRules: true
});
console.log(data); // =>
{ 'en-US': { locale: 'en-US', parentLocale: 'en' },
'en-GB': { locale: 'en-GB', parentLocale: 'en-001' },
'en-001': { locale: 'en-001', parentLocale: 'en' } },
en: { locale: 'en', pluralRuleFunction: [Function] }
Since the pluralRuleFunction
for the root locale "en"
is the same as used in the locales: "en-US"
and "en-GB"
, the function is located in the "en" entry. The entries for the en-*
locales all contain a parentLocale
property which can be followed up to "en"
.
Data Shape
The data object returned from this package will have the following shape, here's the data for US English:
{ en:
{ locale: 'en',
pluralRuleFunction: [Function],
fields:
{ year: [Object],
"year-short": [Object],
month: [Object],
"month-short": [Object],
week: [Object],
"week-short": [Object],
day: [Object],
"day-short": [Object],
hour: [Object],
"hour-short": [Object],
minute: [Object],
"minute-short": [Object],
second: [Object],
"second-short": [Object] } } }
Each field has the following shape, here's the data for English year
:
{ displayName: 'Year',
relative: { '0': 'this year', '1': 'next year', '-1': 'last year' },
relativeTime:
{ future: { one: 'in {0} year', other: 'in {0} years' },
past: { one: '{0} year ago', other: '{0} years ago' } } }
Options
In order for any data to be returned, the value true
must be assigned to either the pluralRules
and/or relativeFields
options. By default, data will be returned for all locales in the CLDR; to limit which locales, assign an array of them to the locales
option.
locales
An optional array of locales to extract data for, specified as string language tags. By default, data will be returned for all locales in the CLDR.
Note: This package leverages the language tag hierarchy to de-duplicate data and also normalizes the casing of language tags. There will be an entry for every locale specified in locales
, plus an entry to each parent locale up to the root. When a locale has a parent, a parentLocale
field will be present in
that locale's entry.
pluralRules
Boolean for whether or not pluralRuleFunction
s should be extracted for the specified locales
. These functions will support both cardinal and ordinal pluralization. These functions are generated using the [make-plural][] project.
relativeFields
Boolean for whether or not fields
should be extracted for the specified locales
. The field data that's extracted is limited to the data required to support FormatJS' relative time formatting features, and it's organized in the shape described above.
Updating the CLDR Data
The CLDR version and data used by this package can be easily updated by changing the cldr-*
package versions in package.json
.
Note: It's recommended to keep the package versions exact and not use ~
or ^
modifiers.
License
The CLDR data contained in this packaged is licensed under the Apache, ICU, and Unicode licenses. See the [Unicode® Copyright and Terms of Use][https://unicode.org/copyright.html] for their license text and copyright information.