Perl and Catalyst: accessing maketext from a model

Question

Edited to clarify / reflect what I've been trying:

I'm using CatalystX::I18N::* in order to be able to internationalise my site. I have that working nicely, and my site text is coming from $c->maketext().

However, I've been trying to access these codes from my database model (in order to generate, e.g., success or failure messages when checking input before creating / updating) and am struggling.

According to the CatalystX::I18N docs, CatalystX::I18N::Maketext is a 'Helpful wrapper around Locale::Maketext. Can also be used outside of Catalyst'.

I have MyApp::Maketext setup as directed:

package MyApp::Maketext;

use strict;
use warnings;
use parent qw(CatalystX::I18N::Maketext);

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I have a little test script running, the setup for which is this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use FindBin qw( $Bin );
use lib "$Bin/../lib";
use TopTable::Maketext;
use Path::Class::Dir;

my $dir = Path::Class::Dir->new( "$Bin/..", "root", "locale" );
TopTable::Maketext->load_lexicon(
  locales => ["en_GB"], # Required
  directories => [$dir], # Required
  gettext_style => 0, # Optional, Default 1
);

I am then trying two different ways to get a handle to the maketext() method:

my $lang = TopTable::Maketext->get_handle;
printf "%s\n", $lang->maketext( "menu.title.news" );

Gives the following result:

Can't call method "maketext" on an undefined value at bin\maketext-demo.pl line 23.

If I swap ->get_handle to ->new:

my $lang = TopTable::Maketext->new;
printf "%s\n", $lang->maketext( "menu.title.news" );

I get the following:

maketext doesn't know how to say:
menu.title.news
as needed at bin\maketext-demo.pl line 23.

I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to try next! Thank you so much in advance for any pointers anyone can give.

Chris

Answer 1

I have finally got my head around this - this is the code that eventually worked:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use FindBin qw( $Bin );
use lib "$Bin/../lib";
use Data::Dumper::Concise;
use TopTable::Maketext;
use Config::ZOMG;
use Path::Class::Dir;

my $tt_config = Config::ZOMG->new( name => 'TopTable' );
my $config_hash = $tt_config->load;

my (@locales, %inhertiance, $config);
$config = $config_hash->{I18N}{locales};
foreach my $locale (keys %$config) {
  push(@locales, $locale);
  $inhertiance{$locale} = $config->{$locale}{inherits} if defined $con
+fig->{$locale}{inherits};
}

my $dir = Path::Class::Dir->new( "$Bin/..", "root", "locale" );
TopTable::Maketext->load_lexicon(
  locales => \@locales,
  directories => [$dir],
  gettext_style => 1,
  inheritance => \%inhertiance,
);

my $lang = TopTable::Maketext->get_handle( "en_GB" );
printf "%s\n", $lang->maketext( "menu.title.league-tables", "Division Three" );

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This gives the correct value of:

League Tables for Division Three

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