Question

From django documentation:

js_info_dict = {
‘packages’: (‘your.app.package’,), }

urlpatterns = patterns(”,
(r’^jsi18n/$’, ‘django.views.i18n.javascript_catalog’,
js_info_dict), )

Each string in packages should be in
Python dotted-package syntax (the same
format as the strings in
INSTALLED_APPS) and should refer to a
package that contains a locale
directory.

It says “a package that contains a locale directory.” , but i created translation files with djangoadmin.py makemessages -a and it creates locale just inside project directory. Not under any of my application directories. And i try to set packages as

js_info_dict = {
‘packages’: (‘my_project_dir’,), }

Apparently that’s not working for me. Every string from django domain gets translated but i get an empty translation catalog in javascript from javascript_catalog view. What am i missing here?

Answer 1

First you need to be sure that your js_info_dict is like this:

js_info_dict = {
    'domain': 'djangojs',
    'packages': ('my_project_name',),
}

And as @daonb suggested, add ‘my_project_name’ to your INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py.

Make sure that you compile your messages like this:

django-admin.py makemessages -a -d djangojs

That’s all!

I don’t know why Django doesn’t have that information into its documentation. I could find the solution with using these articles below:

http://www.aminche.com/blog/2010/07/06/playground-editor
http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5494
http://osdir.com/ml/django-users/2010-04/msg00231.html