[Seaside] Re: Seaside and gettext not exporting domain strings

[David Carlos Manuelda]

David Carlos Manuelda wrote:

> I am following guide from https://code.google.com/p/seaside/wiki/Gettext,
> and also, downloaded Seaside-Gettext-Examples-pmm.4.mcz from monticello
> source http://www.squeaksource.com/Seaside30Addons.
> 
> It seems a good source of learning gettext integration into seaside.
> 
> To test the example, I just doit: WAGettextExample register, and enter to
> localhost:8080/gettext.
> 
> It displays good, but when I try to export the domain strings, via
> evaluating WAGettextExample export, I only get pharo strings, and not the
> gettext domain strings present there.
> 
> As it is an autoconfigurable example, and little enough, can someone point
> me in the right direction about what is happening?
I am answering my own post to the list, because I spent some hours into 
looking at why it is failing to work with translations despite it should.

I want to share with you all, in case someone finds this seaside gettext 
example useful in order to help others running into the same problem.

WAGettextExample has a class side method called register, which registers 
itself as a seaside application and tries to configure gettext.

The original method is as follows:
WAGettextExample class>>register
   | application  |
   application := WAAdmin 
    register: self
    asApplicationAt: 'gettext'.
   application preferenceAt: #sessionClass put: WAGettextExampleSession.
   application configuration addParent: WAGetTextConfiguration instance.
   application configuration at: #gettextDomain put: 'gettext'.
   TextDomainManager registerCategoryPrefix: 'Seaside-Gettext-Examples' 
domain: 'gettext'.


That will lead to incomplete application registration, because it do not 
register gettext domain into seaside-gettext.

The corrected method I found it to work is as follows:
WAGettextExample class>>register
  | application  |
  application := WAAdmin 
   register: self
   asApplicationAt: 'gettext'.
  application preferenceAt: #sessionClass put: WAGettextExampleSession.
  application configuration addParent: WAGetTextConfiguration instance.
  application configuration at: #gettextDomain put: 'gettext'.
  "TextDomainManager registerCategoryPrefix: 'Seaside-Gettext-Examples' 
domain: 'gettext'."
  "The commented line above is a mistake in WAGettext example"




I hope it could be updated to prevent new users like me to get confused by 
seing things not working, and to help others :)

David.