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Seitaridis
Seitaridis

Reputation: 4529

Internationalize the attributes of an object

My object has an attribute called status. Status can have two states: opened and closed. The value of this attribute should be translated. I've tried to do this in two ways:

<td> {% trans object.status %} </td>

and 

<td>
    {% blocktrans with object.status as status %} {{ status }} {% endblocktrans %}
</td>

but with no result. In django.po file I have an entry %(status)s. How will Django know how to translate the status?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 75

Answers (2)

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 600026

If status can only have two states, you should use the choices attribute in the model definition. The values for choices can then be marked for translation:

STATUS_CHOICES = (
    ('open', _('open')),
    ('closed', _('closed'))
)

class MyModel(models.Model):
    status = models.CharField(max_length=10, choices=STATUS_CHOICES)

and in the template, use the get_status_display method:

<td> {{ object.get_status_display }} </td>

Upvotes: 1

MBarsi
MBarsi

Reputation: 2457

check if you drop these 4 lines into the po:

msgid "opend"
msgstr "Your translated word"

msgid "closed"
msgstr "your trans word"

and run :

manage.py compiletranslation

because when you edit the .po file with existing .mo file, the change have no effect

Upvotes: 0

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