I have finished and made this app available via it's own web site. Take a look http://poedit.tomcoote.co.uk/
On Aug 1, 1:18 pm, cootetom <[email protected]> wrote: > I have found some code that can get the request object. > > f = sys._getframe() > while f: > request = f.f_locals.get('request') > if isinstance(request, HttpRequest): > path = request.path > break > f = f.f_back > > James: I understand completely what you are saying and have thought > long and hard about how I can achieve what I'm doing without needing > the above code. I am creating an app that will provide a UI to admins > to translate the text on each web page. The app needs to keep a track > of which text from the current active language locale files has been > used in the rendering of the current page they're on. At the same time > I didn't want to have to change the way in which developers mark text > for translation. This meant that I needed to override the gettext and > template translation tags with custom ones which first remembered what > message ID's were being used and second just called the default Django > versions of these methods. However neither gettext or the template > translation tags need to be aware of the request but to remember which > message ID's are in use for a page I needed to know about the request. > My options were either change my overriding methods to also accept a > request object or find the object via another means. The latter seemed > easier on future development. > > My app is almost finished. I need to do a load of testing on it. I'm > then going to place it into an existing site that uses locale files > for it's text. After that, I plan to release it for download so that > others can use it. It turns out really useful to have a UI that will > manage locale text. I have looked at another one called rosetta but it > was implemented into the admin system and so didn't have a way of > showing which text was used on specific pages which I think is really > useful, especially if clients want to get involved with text > translation. > > On Aug 1, 4:23 am, James Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:37 PM, cootetom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks Carlos but I'm trying to achieve getting the path without > > > having to pass the request object. > > > In a word: don't. > > > Instead, design your system to pass the information you need where and > > when you need it. This doesn't mean everything always has to sling > > around a request object, just that you need to think carefully about > > separation of concerns and which code needs to get at the request. > > > Do this, and in 6-12 months when you have to start making changes to > > update your application, you'll be incredibly thankful that you did it > > right the first time around. > > > -- > > "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of > > correct." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
