Adding a translation at runtime?

[rdeslonde-eichleay]

Our customers can provide custom messages to their customers on our platform. So we want to enable them to provide their own translations of their custom messages. So at runtime, I would like to add their translation to the catalog. Is that possible?

[rdeslonde-eichleay]

I think this answers my question?

https://angular-gettext.rocketeer.be/dev-guide/manual-setstrings/

But will setStrings overwrite existing language translation, or just add them to the existing catalog for a given language?

[rubenv]

@rdeslonde-eichleay yes it does, that's exactly the way to go!

[rdeslonde-eichleay]

If I already have a bunch of translations from a po file, and I use setStrings, will it clear the translations that already exist and set the new ones, or will it just set the new ones, adding them to the existing set?

[rubenv]

Source is here:

angular-gettext/src/catalog.js

Lines 155 to 201 in 20d8869

	/**
	* @ngdoc method
	* @name gettextCatalog#setStrings
	* @public
	* @param {String} language language name
	* @param {Object.<String>} strings set of strings where the key is the translation `key` and `value` is the translated text
	* @description Processes an object of string definitions. {@link guide:manual-setstrings More details here}.
	*/
	setStrings: function (language, strings) {
	if (!this.strings[language]) {
	this.strings[language] = {};
	}
	var defaultPlural = gettextPlurals(language, 1);
	for (var key in strings) {
	var val = strings[key];
	if (isHTMLModified) {
	// Use the DOM engine to render any HTML in the key (#131).
	key = angular.element('<span>' + key + '</span>').html();
	}
	if (angular.isString(val) || angular.isArray(val)) {
	// No context, wrap it in $$noContext.
	var obj = {};
	obj[noContext] = val;
	val = obj;
	}
	if (!this.strings[language][key]) {
	this.strings[language][key] = {};
	}
	for (var context in val) {
	var str = val[context];
	if (!angular.isArray(str)) {
	// Expand single strings
	this.strings[language][key][context] = [];
	this.strings[language][key][context][defaultPlural] = str;
	} else {
	this.strings[language][key][context] = str;
	}
	}
	}
	broadcastUpdated();
	},

It merges.

[rdeslonde-eichleay]

Sweet, thanks. This is an awesome library. Thanks for maintaining it.

[rubenv]

Thanks, glad you like it. Don't have too much time for it nowadays, but it doesn't ask for much either.

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