load-messages.md

.loadMessages( json )

Load messages data.

The first level of keys must be locales. For example:

{
  en: {
    hello: "Hello"
  },
  pt: {
    hello: "Olá"
  }
}

ICU MessageFormat pattern is supported: variable replacement, gender and plural inflections. For more information see .messageFormatter( path ) ➡ function([ variables ]).

The provided messages are stored along side other cldr data, under the "globalize-messages" key. This allows Globalize to reuse the traversal methods provided by cldrjs. You can inspect this data using cldrjs.get("globalize-messages").

Parameters

json

JSON object of messages data. Keys can use any character, except /, { and }. Values (i.e., the message content itself) can contain any character.

Example

Globalize.loadMessages({
  pt: {
    greetings: {
      hello: "Olá",
      bye: "Tchau"
    }
  }
});

Globalize( "pt" ).formatMessage( "greetings/hello" );
➡ Olá

Multiline strings

Use Arrays as a convenience for multiline strings. The lines will be joined by a space.

Globalize.loadMessages({
  en: {
    longText: [
      "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Eligendi non",
      "quis exercitationem culpa nesciunt nihil aut nostrum explicabo",
      "reprehenderit optio amet ab temporibus asperiores quasi cupiditate.",
      "Voluptatum ducimus voluptates voluptas?"
    ]
  }
});

Globalize( "en" ).formatMessage( "longText" );
➡ "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Eligendi non quis exercitationem culpa nesciunt nihil aut nostrum explicabo reprehenderit optio amet ab temporibus asperiores quasi cupiditate. Voluptatum ducimus voluptates voluptas?"

Messages inheritance

It's possible to inherit messages, for example:

Globalize.loadMessages({
  root: {
    amen: "Amen"
  },
  pt: {
    amen: "Amém"
  }
});

Globalize( "pt-PT" ).formatMessage( "amen" ); // "Amém"
Globalize( "de" ).formatMessage( "amen" ); // "Amen"
Globalize( "en" ).formatMessage( "amen" ); // "Amen"
Globalize( "en-GB" ).formatMessage( "amen" ); // "Amen"
Globalize( "fr" ).formatMessage( "amen" ); // "Amen"

Note that pt-PT, de, en, en-GB, and fr have never been defined. .formatMessage() inherits pt-PT messages from pt (pt-PT ➡ pt), and it inherits the other messages from root, eg. en-GB ➡ en ➡ root. Yes, root is the last bundle of the parent lookup.

Attention: On browsers, message inheritance only works if the optional dependency cldr/unresolved is loaded.

<script src="cldr/unresolved.js"></script>