ng-gettext

This library utilizes gettext mechanism in angular.

It is strongly inspired by angular-gettext angularjs implementation and utilises .po file parser created by its author, Ruben Vermeersch.

Limitations

For now, pluralization and contexts are not implemented.

Usage

Module

You may simply import GettextModule into your angular application.

If you wish to initialize translations cache before any unit uses it, just feed GettextService with TranslationsCache on module construction:

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { GettextModule, GettextService } from 'ng-gettext';
import translationsCache from './translations-cache';

@NgModule({
    imports: [GettextModule]
})
export class MyModule {
    public constructor(gettextService: GettextService) {
        gettextService.setTranslations(translationsCache);
    }
}

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Preparing translations cache

Use node_modules/.bin/gettext-build-translations script to compile cache from your .po files.

Arguments:

• --input directory - path (cwd-relative or absolute) to directory containing .po files. May be passed multiple times.
• --output file - path to file to be generated. This will be a .ts file containing a default export of type TranslationsCache.

Component

<gettext-translate> component is provided. It has following arguments:

• key - translation key
• interpolations - (optional) key-value map of values to replace interpolated parts of translation with; by default, [[variable]] marks a part of translation to be interpolated by interpolations.variable value

Example

<!-- no interpolation -->
<gettext-translate key="You've got a message"></gettext-translate> <!-- simply translates "You've got a message" -->
<gettext-translate [key]="'Message text ' + id"></gettext-translate> <!-- takes resolved string, e.g. "Message text 1" as translation key -->

<!-- interpolation -->
<gettext-translate key="You've got [[number]] messages" [interpolations]="{number: 3}"></gettext-translate> <!-- interpolates "3" into translated "You've got [[number]] messages" text -->

Pipe

gettextTranslate pipe is provided. It uses input string as translation key. It has the same optional arguments as component.

Example

{{ 'You\'ve got a message' | gettextTranslate }} <!-- simply translates "You've got a message" -->
{{ 'You've got [[number]] messages' | gettextTranslate:{number: 3} }} <!-- interpolates "3" into translated "You've got [[number]] messages" text -->

Service

GettextService service is provided. It includes some all translation as well as configuration routines:

• setDebugMode(enable: boolean, prefix?: string, suffix?: string): void

  Allows to enable/disable debug mode in which missing translation keys are surrounded by prefix and suffix. Default prefix is [MISSING] ; default suffix is empty.

  This is helpful to notice missing translations while running application in development mode - especially when enabled during its bootstrap phase.

• setInterpolationMarkers(prefix: string, suffix: string): void

  Allows to change default [[/]] interpolation markers for your convenience.

• getString(key: string, interpolations?: Record<string, any>): string

  Allows to translate passed key in non-template scope. Optional interpolations key-value map may be passed - see component documentation for more details.

• getCurrentLanguage(): string

  Returns current language setting.

• setCurrentLanguage(language: string): void

  Changes current language setting.

• setTranslations(language: string, translations: Record<string, string>): void

  Adds translations to given language. translations is key-translation map.

  Any translations passed are appended to current translations cache, so there's no problem to run this method multiple times to feed from different sources. If key collision occurs, the newest value is used.

Requirements

• angular ^8.0.0