parler.utils.context module

Context managers for temporary switching the language.

class parler.utils.context.smart_override(language_code)

This is a smarter version of translation.override which avoids switching the language if there is no change to make. This method can be used in place of translation.override:

with smart_override(self.get_current_language()):
    return reverse('myobject-details', args=(self.id,))

This makes sure that any URLs wrapped in i18n_patterns() will receive the correct language code prefix. When the URL also contains translated fields (e.g. a slug), use switch_language instead.

__init__(language_code)

Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.

class parler.utils.context.switch_language(object, language_code=None)

A contextmanager to switch the translation of an object.

It changes both the translation language, and object language temporary.

This context manager can be used to switch the Django translations to the current object language. It can also be used to render objects in a different language:

with switch_language(object, 'nl'):
    print object.title

This is particularly useful for the get_absolute_url() function. By using this context manager, the object language will be identical to the current Django language.

def get_absolute_url(self):
    with switch_language(self):
        return reverse('myobject-details', args=(self.slug,))

Note

When the object is shared between threads, this is not thread-safe. Use safe_translation_getter() instead to read the specific field.

__init__(object, language_code=None)

Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.