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Robert Hegner
Robert Hegner

Reputation: 9396

Cannot get basic localization to work with ASP.NET 5

I'm trying localize my ASP.NET 5 / MVC 6 (RC1) project. Unfortunately the official documentation is still missing so I based my experiments mainly on this and this blog posts.

Here is what I did: In Configure (Startup.cs) I have

app.UseRequestLocalization(new RequestLocalizationOptions
{
    RequestCultureProviders = new List<IRequestCultureProvider>
    {
        new CustomRequestCultureProvider(httpContext => Task.FromResult(new ProviderCultureResult("de-CH"))),
        new AcceptLanguageHeaderRequestCultureProvider()
    }
}, new RequestCulture("en-US"));

Note that the first entry in my RequestCultureProviders list always returns the de-CH culture. So I would expect that the AcceptLanguageHeaderRequestCultureProvider as well as the default RequestCulture (en-US) have no influence.

However when I look at

HttpContext.Features.Get<IRequestCultureFeature>().RequestCulture.Culture.Name;

in some controller action, its value is en-US and not the expected de-CH.

I then tried to change the default RequestCulture in Configure from en-US to de-DE and now when I look at 

HttpContext.Features.Get<IRequestCultureFeature>().RequestCulture.Culture.Name;

in my controller action, it has the value de-DE.

So the question is: Why does ASP.NET fall back to the default culture instead of using the culture de-CH provided by my CustomRequestCultureProvider?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2013

Answers (1)

Jeff Ogata
Jeff Ogata

Reputation: 57823

It seems you must also include "de-CH" in the list of supported cultures. For example, the following returns "de-CH" as the culture, but if I comment out the lines setting SupportedCultures, it displays "en-US". In an MVC application, you might also have to set SupportedUICultures.

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
    app.UseIISPlatformHandler();

    var requestLocalizationOptions = new RequestLocalizationOptions
    {
        SupportedCultures = new List<CultureInfo>
        {
            new CultureInfo("en-US"),
            new CultureInfo("de-CH")
        },
        RequestCultureProviders = new List<IRequestCultureProvider>
        {
            new CustomRequestCultureProvider(httpContext => Task.FromResult(new ProviderCultureResult("de-CH"))),
            new AcceptLanguageHeaderRequestCultureProvider()
        }
    };

    app.UseRequestLocalization(requestLocalizationOptions, new RequestCulture("en-US"));

    app.Run(async (context) =>
    {
        var envName = context.Features.Get<IRequestCultureFeature>().RequestCulture.Culture.Name;

        await context.Response.WriteAsync("Hello World! " + envName);
    });
}

The description for the SupportedCultures property says a value of null indicates all cultures are supported and that null is the default, but testing indicates otherwise, as does the source:

/// <summary>
/// The cultures supported by the application. The <see cref="RequestLocalizationMiddleware"/> will only set
/// the current request culture to an entry in this list.
/// Defaults to <see cref="CultureInfo.CurrentCulture"/>.
/// </summary>
public IList<CultureInfo> SupportedCultures { get; set; } = new List<CultureInfo> { CultureInfo.CurrentCulture };

Upvotes: 6

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