I can use jinj2 templates with django via render_to_response defined as below
from django.conf import settings
from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template import TemplateDoesNotExist, Context
from django.utils import translation
from itertools import chain
from jinja2 import FileSystemLoader, Environment
from jinja2 import nodes
from jinja2.ext import Extension
from django.conf import settings
import jinja_filters as jf
import traceback
from django.utils.translation import gettext, ngettext
class DjangoTranslator(object):
def __init__(self):
self.gettext = gettext
self.ngettext = ngettext
class DjangoEnvironment(Environment):
def get_translator(self, context):
return DjangoTranslator()
template_dirs = getattr(settings, TEMPLATE_DIRS )
default_mimetype = getattr(settings, DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE )
global_exts = getattr(settings, JINJA_EXTENSIONS , ())
env = DjangoEnvironment(autoescape=False, loader=FileSystemLoader(template_dirs, encoding="utf-8"), extensions=global_exts)
env.filters.update({ myescape :jf.myescape})
if jinja2.ext.i18n in global_exts:
env.install_gettext_translations(translation)
def render_to_response(filename, context={}, context_instance=Context({}), mimetype=default_mimetype):
template = env.get_template(filename)
for d in context_instance.dicts:
context.update(d)
context.update({ settings :settings})
rendered = template.render(**context)
return HttpResponse(rendered, mimetype=mimetype)
but cannot make django extract translation strings for jinja2 templates.
seems that the lines below in django/utils/translation/trans_real.py make it possible for makemessages command to parse django templates for i18n via templatize@trans_real.py
inline_re = re.compile(r"""^s*transs+((?:".*?")|(?: .*? ))s*""") block_re = re.compile(r"""^s*blocktrans(?:s+|$)""") endblock_re = re.compile(r"""^s*endblocktrans$""") plural_re = re.compile(r"""^s*plural$""") constant_re = re.compile(r"""_(((?:".*?")|(?: .*? )))""")
is there a nicer way than modifying the makemessages.py by rewriting translation tags regexes for local use on jinja2 templates to extract translation strings?