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A content translation framework using Postgresql's jsonb field in the background

Project description

nece?

Introduction

.. figure:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tatterdemalion/django-nece/master/images/nece.png :alt: nece

A “Content Translation Framework” using Postgresql’s jsonb field. It simply sets and gets translations from a jsonb field called translations.

Why?


You might ask why you should use django-nece since there are other, and
more mature content translation frameworks like `django-hvad`_ and
`django-modeltranslation`_. Both of them are good in some ways, worst in
others.

For instance, it is very hard for ``django-hvad`` users to get default
language if there is no corresponding translation for an object. And it
holds translated values in a different table, so every translation query
results in another hit to the database.

On the other hand ``django-modeltranslation`` adds multiple additional
fields for multiple languages. The number of fields inceases by the
number of languages you need to support. At the end it becomes a huge
chunk of an object if you need to add more than 20 languages.

``nece?`` more or less works like the latter one with an important
difference. It uses Postgresql’s new ``JSONB`` field to hold translation
information. And overrides the original one on query.

Dependencies
------------

::

    postgresql >= 9.4.5
    Django >= 1.9
    psycopg2 >= 2.5.4


Installation
------------

via pypi:

::

pip install nece

via setup.py


::

    python setup.py install

Usage
-----

Lets say we have a model called ``Fruit``:

::

    from nece.models import TranslationModel

    class Fruit(TranslationModel):
        name = CharField(max_length=255)

        def __str__(self):
            return self.name

        class Meta:
            translatable_fields = ('name',)

``TranslationModel`` adds a jsonb field to this table and sets
translations in a notation like the one below:

::

    {u'de_de': {u'name': u'Apfel'},
     u'tr_tr': {u'name': u'elma'}}

When we need the German translation we can simply choose the language
and get the attribute as usual:

::

    >> f = Fruit.objects.get(name='apple')
    >> print(f.name)
    apple
    >> f.language('de_de')
    >> print(f.name)
    Apfel

You can also filter out the ones containing any language translation:

::

    >> Fruit.objects.all()
    [<Fruit: apple>, <Fruit: pear>, <Fruit: banana>]
    >> Fruit.objects.language('tr_tr')
    [<Fruit: elma>, <Fruit: armut>]  # there is no translation for banana
    >> Fruit.objects.language_or_default('tr_tr')
    [<Fruit: elma>, <Fruit: armut>, <Fruit: banana>]
    >> Fruit.objects.language('tr_tr').filter(name='elma')
    [<Fruit: elma>]
    >> Fruit.objects.language('tr_tr').get(name='elma')
    <Fruit: elma>

Updating translations

::

>> fruit._language_code
tr_tr
>> fruit.name
elma
>> fruit.translate(name='armut').save()
>> fruit.name
armut
>> fruit.language('en')
>> fruit.translate('it_it', name='pera')
>> fruit.language('it_it')
>> fruit.name
pera

Settings

TRANSLATIONS_DEFAULT


Default language code. Default value: ```en_us```

TRANSLATIONS_MAP
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Shortcuts for ```languagecode_countrycode``` notation. 

Example:

::

    TRANSLATIONS_MAP = {
        "en": "en_us",
        "tr": "tr_tr",
        "ar": "ar_sy",
        "bg": "bg_bg",
        "cs": "cs_cz",
        "da": "da_dk",
        ...
    }


Default:

::

    {'en': 'en_us'}


TRANSLATIONS_FALLBACK

Fallback language would be used if a translation is missing.

Example:

:: TRANSLATIONS_FALLBACK = { 'fr_ca': ['fr_fr'], 'en_us': ['en_gb'], }

Admin panel

Use TranslatableModelAdmin for pretty JSON editor (powered by django-admin-json-editor_).

.. figure:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tatterdemalion/django-nece/master/images/admin.png :alt: nece

Example:

.. code-block:: python

settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [ ... 'django_admin_json_editor', ... ]

admin.py

from nece.admin import TranslatableModelAdmin

class PlaceAdmin(TranslatableModelAdmin): list_display = ('...')

Contributors & Thanks

  • Erkan Ay_
  • Ayman Khalil_
  • Gönül Sabah_
  • Faruk Rahmet_
  • Mathieu Richardoz_
  • Marc Hertzog_
  • Alexey Kotenko_

Change Log_

.. _django-hvad: https://github.com/kristianoellegaard/django-hvad .. _django-modeltranslation: https://github.com/deschler/django-modeltranslation .. _Erkan Ay: https://github.com/erkanay .. _Ayman Khalil: https://github.com/aymankh86 .. _Gönül Sabah: https://github.com/gonulsabah .. _Faruk Rahmet: https://github.com/farukrahmet .. _Mathieu Richardoz: https://github.com/metamatik .. _Marc Hertzog: https://github.com/kemar .. _Alexey Kotenko: https://github.com/k0t3n .. _Change Log: https://github.com/tatterdemalion/django-nece/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md .. _django-admin-json-editor: https://github.com/abogushov/django-admin-json-editor

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