[Feature] get all message from a category

[ziaratban]

Q	A
Yii version	2.0.12?

Hi
i think this feature is need for big project that using internationalization(I18N).
but where is it used?
this is used in interaction between server I18N and client project like javascript.
i prepared a sample example.

Yii messages file in TreeView category

return [
    'Hello' => 'سلام',
    'Good' => 'خوب',
];

in javascript

var obj = new MyTreeViewClass();
obj->languages = '<?=yii::t('TreeView',null)?>';

in above js example i use null parameter for t method, because null means get all message from TreeView category.

also see
how i can get a category message in yii ?

[viktorprogger]

This issue is the same as #95

[samdark]

That is hardly possible because choosing a message may consider parameters. That is true, for example, for gettext plurals.

[ziaratban]

when we sent all the messages into client, therefore that parameters must be managed by the client(js).

[samdark]

We can't get the message not knowing parameters when using gettext.

[ziaratban]

@samdark you right!
but my goals of this issue is using the php array instead of the gettext.
php array is powerful and flexible.

[samdark]

You can get the array directly, I guess. Just via require 'messages.php';.

[ziaratban]

yes. seems this feature is not supported by yii2 because the yii2 uses gettext and maybe in future yii2 using array instead of the gettext.

thanks.

[samdark]

Yii 2 and Yii 3 can use gettext or PHP. The issue is that the interface is common so you can use one implementation or another without changing actual code. Therefore, the interface can not contain methods that can't work in one of the implementations.

Anyway, that seems to be specific task dependent on message storage format. Can't be implemented in a generic way.