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Django gettext not working properly with django rest

I'm having some weird bug with gettext while using a ModelSerializer, I cannot get the translated charfield choice for all of the choices, some choices work but others don't I even tried to run another makemessages command but the same inconsistent result. this is the problematic field

status= models.CharField(
          max_length=50,
          default="pending",
          choices=[
              ('pending', _('Pending')),
              ('initiated', _('Initiated')),
              ('completed', _('Completed'))
          ]
      )
Solution

  • the solution to this was using get_FieldName_display() something like this worked correctly:

    status = serializers.SerializerMethodField()

def get_status(self, instance):
    from django.utils.translation import gettext as _
    return _(instance.get_status_display())

    this is probably because i'm using windows :)