anyong/django-parler-rest

Multilingual support for django-rest-framework

django-parler-rest

Adding translation support to django-rest-framework.

This package adds support for TranslatableModels from django-parler to django-rest-framework.

Installation

pip install django-parler-rest

Usage

• First make sure you have django-parler installed and configured.
• Use the serializers as demonstrated below to expose the translations.

First configure a model, following the django-parler documentation:

from django.db import models
from parler.models import TranslatableModel, TranslatedFields


class Country(TranslatableModel):
    """
    Country database model.
    """

    country_code = models.CharField(_("Country code"), unique=True, db_index=True)

    translations = TranslatedFields(
        name = models.CharField(_("Name"), max_length=200)
        url = models.URLField(_("Webpage"), max_length=200, blank=True)
    )

    class Meta:
        verbose_name = _("Country")
        verbose_name_plural = _("Countries")

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.name

The model translations can be exposed as a seperate serializer:

from rest_framework import serializers
from parler_rest.serializers import TranslatableModelSerializer, TranslatedFieldsField
from .models import Country   # Example model


class CountrySerializer(TranslatableModelSerializer):
    translations = TranslatedFieldsField(shared_model=Country)

    class Meta:
        model = Country
        fields = ('id', 'country_code', 'translations')

This will expose the fields as a separate dictionary in the JSON output:

{
    "id": 528,
    "country_code": "NL",
    "translations": {
        "nl": {
            "name": "Nederland",
            "url": "http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederland"
        },
        "en": {
            "name": "Netherlands",
            "url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands"
        },
        "de" {
            "name": "Niederlande",
            "url": "http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niederlande"
        }
    }
}

Contributing

This module is designed to be generic. In case there is anything you didn't like about it, or think it's not flexible enough, please let us know. We'd love to improve it!

If you have any other valuable contribution, suggestion or idea, please let us know as well because we will look into it. Pull requests are welcome too. :-)