How to provide translations for django standalone app inside app?-CodePudding

I would want to provide translation texts (makemessages and write translation strings) inside django-standalone app, to make app support multiple languages. How it can be done?

Currently, I use from django.utils.translation import gettext to define translation strings. I would not want to run manage.py makemessages command in the parent project and repeat writing translation strings for each parent project.

CodePudding user response：

If you are using Linux you can use this code:

cd your_app_name
python ../manage.py makemessages

Also no difference in windows too but I never tested it!

For more information and understanding the priority of translation directories read this documentation.

CodePudding user response：

To run makemessages for app without a parent project I made the following python script makemessages.py, I put this inside my app root directory:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import django

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.management import call_command
from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _

settings.configure(DEBUG=True,
    LANGUAGES = [
    ('fi', _('Suomi')),
    ('en', _('English')),
    ],
    USE_I18N = True,
    USE_L10N = True,
    USE_TZ = True,
    LOCALE_PATHS = (
        'locale/',
    )
)

django.setup()

call_command('makemessages', '-l', 'fi', '-l', 'en')

After that, I was able to create the first translations for the specified languages by running

python3 makemessages.py

After once ran, I was able to update translation strings and compile messages with

django-admin makemessages --all
django-admin compilemessages