Multiple formatters with List

[simplecommerce]

Hi,

I was wondering if there was a simple way to do the following.

I have an array which I am passing to the list built-in formatter.
I would like to be able to apply another format but not to the list itself but to each individual item of the list.

Right now the only way I was able to achieve it, was to add a custom formatter before my list that maps my array into the list of strings that I then pass to list.

But I thought it would be nice to be able to do the following.

i18next.t("translation","{{val, list, customFormat}}");

And it could be anyting from the built-in ones to custom ones.

For example, I want to format my array of numbers using list and currency.

How do you guys achieve this or do you have suggestions?

[jamuhl]

Can‘t you just add a customformatter with unique name like described here https://www.i18next.com/translation-function/formatting#basic-usage

[simplecommerce]

Can‘t you just add a customformatter with unique name like described here https://www.i18next.com/translation-function/formatting#basic-usage

Maybe, I just don't see how I could achieve that with my example.

If I have an array of numbers that I would want to use list and format it into an array of currency so it would end up being:

$10,000, $20,000 and $30,000 when I am passing [10000,20000,30000]

or an array of dates.

I read the doc but I just don't see how I could do it without creating a custom one.

[jamuhl]

like said by adding a formatter that loops through value (array) to map items to currency strings and finally do the intl list stuff

[simplecommerce]

like said by adding a formatter that loops through value (array) to map items to currency strings and finally do the intl list stuff

yeah that's what I ended up doing, I just thought maybe there was a better way to achieve this.

I know its not part of this discussion but I don't understand what alwaysFormat does, since there isn't an example in the docs of what it can be use for, like a use case.

[jamuhl]

not sure how you think that can be simplified? but open for suggestions.

regarding alwaysFormat I have no idea. @adrai might know more?

[adrai]

alwaysFormat, will always format an interpolated value...
example: https://github.com/i18next/i18next/blob/master/test/interpolation.spec.js#L269

Introduced with #1385 based on issue #1384 by @mjbcopland

[simplecommerce]

alwaysFormat, will always format an interpolated value... example: https://github.com/i18next/i18next/blob/master/test/interpolation.spec.js#L269

Introduced with #1385 based on issue #1384 by @mjbcopland

Ah ok, so from what I understand, in the test case, it will always execute the format function and return the lowercase result when no formatting is passed, this is the only use case I gather.

[adrai]

yes