[Catalyst] Multi-language and REST

[Ian Docherty]

Knut-Olav Hoven wrote:
> On Friday 25 April 2008 14:44:38 Ian Docherty wrote:
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>> I have been pondering how to take an existing Catalyst application and
>> make it multi-lingual.
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>> I would prefer to use a RESTful method, so this would translate /foo/bar
>> to /en/foo/bar or /fr/foo/bar (for English and French respectively).
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> The elegang solution is to make use of the request header Accept-Language=
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> not many users know how to change this setting in their browsers.
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> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/HTRQ_Headers.html#z12
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Yes, I have done this previously, it is elegant, but not RESTful and =

does not make it easy for users to change their settings on a =

site-by-site basis dynamically, as you could if you provided a language =

selection box on each page.
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>> The problem as I see it is how to do this. I don't want to move all my
>> controllers, e.g. MyApp::Controller::Foo::Bar to
>> MyApp::Controller::Lang::Foo::Bar
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>> What other alternatives are there?
>>
>> Regards
>> Ian
>>
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