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authorMark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>2013-04-01 02:15:32 +0100
committerMark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>2013-04-10 10:24:27 +0100
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parent05f5106c198a596f22adadab1ddf6929ab9c247a (diff)
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Add NOVA_LOCALEDIR env variable
Part of fixing bug #995287 Syncs these two commits from oslo-incubator: Support overriding oslo localedir too Add a gettextutils.install() helper function to get a new gettextutils.install() function which allows the default localedir to be overwritten via an environment variable. Note that gettextutils.install() must be called before any other nova modules are imported since some modules attempt to translate strings at import time (e.g. the 'message' attributes on classes in nova.exception). This is broken and inefficient, but fixing it involves adding something like spinx's l_() function and would be very invaisve. Also, note that calling gettextutils.install() in nova.cmd.__init__ means that no program which uses a different translation domain should ever import any of the modules under nova.cmd. Change-Id: I86562b3a65d371673bb21f7179eecc7602bc0775
-rw-r--r--doc/source/devref/il8n.rst8
-rw-r--r--nova/cmd/__init__.py4
-rw-r--r--nova/openstack/common/gettextutils.py23
3 files changed, 28 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/devref/il8n.rst b/doc/source/devref/il8n.rst
index ce708449d..900ea8a28 100644
--- a/doc/source/devref/il8n.rst
+++ b/doc/source/devref/il8n.rst
@@ -24,10 +24,14 @@ in nova/tests/test_localization.py.
The ``_()`` function is brought into the global scope by doing::
- import gettext
- gettext.install("nova", unicode=1)
+ from nova.openstack.common import gettextutils
+ gettextutils.install('nova')
These lines are needed in any toplevel script before any nova modules are
imported. If this code is missing, it may result in an error that looks like::
NameError: name '_' is not defined
+
+The gettextutils.install() function also queries the NOVA_LOCALEDIR environment
+variable to allow overriding the default localedir with a specific custom
+location for Nova's message catalog.
diff --git a/nova/cmd/__init__.py b/nova/cmd/__init__.py
index cc641efc0..124da12b0 100644
--- a/nova/cmd/__init__.py
+++ b/nova/cmd/__init__.py
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@
import eventlet
eventlet.monkey_patch(os=False)
-import gettext
-gettext.install('nova', unicode=1)
+from nova.openstack.common import gettextutils
+gettextutils.install('nova')
diff --git a/nova/openstack/common/gettextutils.py b/nova/openstack/common/gettextutils.py
index b9993b491..2d2e94a7c 100644
--- a/nova/openstack/common/gettextutils.py
+++ b/nova/openstack/common/gettextutils.py
@@ -24,10 +24,27 @@ Usual usage in an openstack.common module:
"""
import gettext
+import os
-
-t = gettext.translation('nova', 'locale', fallback=True)
+_localedir = os.environ.get('nova'.upper() + '_LOCALEDIR')
+_t = gettext.translation('nova', localedir=_localedir, fallback=True)
def _(msg):
- return t.ugettext(msg)
+ return _t.ugettext(msg)
+
+
+def install(domain):
+ """Install a _() function using the given translation domain.
+
+ Given a translation domain, install a _() function using gettext's
+ install() function.
+
+ The main difference from gettext.install() is that we allow
+ overriding the default localedir (e.g. /usr/share/locale) using
+ a translation-domain-specific environment variable (e.g.
+ NOVA_LOCALEDIR).
+ """
+ gettext.install(domain,
+ localedir=os.environ.get(domain.upper() + '_LOCALEDIR'),
+ unicode=True)