Question

I’m using the Grails Resources plugin with jQuery validation. jQuery validation has locale-specific texts declared as JS files:

/localization
    messages_ar.js
    messages_bg.js
    messages_ca.js

And so on and so forth. In my ApplicationResources.groovy file, I have the following block declared:

form {
    resource url: '/js/jquery/jquery.validate.js'
    resource url: '/js/jquery/jquery.validate.additional-methods.js'
    resource url: '/js/jquery/localization/messages_es.js'
}

But this is a hard-coded value. Is there any way I can configure the Resources plugin to load the correct JS file based on the user’s locale?

Answer 1

Here’s how I’ve done this in the past:

• Define some foreign bundles and end them with the accept-language header (e.g. messages_en.js or messages_es.js)

• In your view when you are laying out resources, add something like:

  <r:external uri=”js/messages_${RequestContextUtils.getLocale(request).getLanguage()}.js”/>

this should properly pull the resource based on the local.

Hope that helps!