Translating doesn't work in a Factory

[smehrbrodt]

Using gettextCatalog.getString() doesn't work in a factory. It returns the untranslated string.

Is there anything I can do about this?

[gabegorelick]

Can you post more of your code? You most likely have something misconfigured, and it's impossible to tell what's going on otherwise.

[smehrbrodt]

export function PersonService(gettextCatalog) {
  return {
    /**
     * A dictionary with gender translations
     */
    genders: {
      'm': gettextCatalog.getString('Male'),
      'f': gettextCatalog.getString('Female')
    },

  };
}

The problem might be that translations are not yet initialized when creating the factory?

[random-one]

I can confirm that it does not work in my factory.

[a-carvallo]

I had the same issue, and solved it by setting the strings as translatable :

Instead of getting the translation for the strings, you do this :

export function PersonService(gettext) {
  return {
    /**
     * A dictionary with genders
     */
    genders: {
      'm': gettext('Male'),
      'f': gettext('Female')
    },
  };
}

And then using the translate filter in my view (supposing you do that through a controller) :

{{genders.m|translate}}

[rikpalmermm]

No answer to this still? How come in a directive: gettextCatalog.getString("yes") returns "oui" ...but in a factory: gettextCatalog.getString("yes") returns "yes" ? I'd be very grateful of assistance else I will need to so some horrible hacking Thanks :)

[aprocom]

@rikpalmermm are you sure that factory is good place to translate strings? Could you anotate (call getext(key)) at factory layer and then use translate directive or filter at template;)

smth like: key string or {{factory.prop | filter}}