Custom storage backed and initialization

[davidkalosi]

Hi,

no idea if anybody will find this interesting but here are some changes I implemented in order to enable loading from different sources then files. Our application stores all the translation messages as well as the list of supported locales in the database so I came up with this idea how to define custom storage backends without any hard dependencies to specific db drivers or ORMs.

the locales parameter can accept a closure with a callback parameter that is the actual locale that is being loaded.
then i added a reader parameter that recieves 2 parameters - one is the locale from the first function and the second param is the array of locales.

the code bellow is my initialization using sequelize.js.

i18n.configure({
    defaultLocale: 'en',
    updateFiles: false,
    locales: function (callback) {
        db.Intl.Locale.findAll().success(function (locales) {
            locales.forEach(function(locale) {
                callback(locale);                
            });
        });
    },
    reader: function(locale, result) {      
        result[locale.locale] = {};

        db.Intl.Error.findAll({where: {locale_id: locale.id}}).success(function (rows) {
            rows.forEach(function(row) {
                result[locale.locale][row.key] = row.message;                
            });
        });        
    }
});

another feature I have added is support for %text% style Symfony placeholders since we are sharing localization data between a Symfony 2 and node application.
This call handles the %id% placeholder in the text.

res.__('intl.locale.notfound', {id: req.params.id})

david

[Jack-Walter-Smith]

this is really useful feature and it's needed

[mashpie]

so... although not merged directly - will keep as todo for refactored backend project