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Grails: internationalization in the service

Today I spent some time by creation of localized messages in a service. Here is a small tutorial.

1. Create your service

grails create-service Local

2. Add a messageSource variable to your new service

class LocalService {
  def messageSource
}

3. Use it in a service method

// Initialize parameters
Object[] testArgs = {}
def msg = messageSource.resolveCode("message.code.to.translate", new java.util.Locale("EN")).format(testArgs)

4. Finally edit the grails-app/i18n/messages.properties

message.code.to.translate=It works!!!
RSS Feed Published on August 7th, 2008 Posted by Roman Mackovcak

6 Responses to “Grails: internationalization in the service”

  1. Lee Butts Says:
    August 8th, 2008 at 9:39

    Hi Roman,

    is it necessary to add the code to resources.groovy? Shouldn’t the messageSource automatically be injected into the service by name?

    cheers

    Lee

  2. Roman Mackovcak Says:
    August 8th, 2008 at 11:18

    Ooops! You are right. Corrected.

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  5. Philip Says:
    May 27th, 2010 at 18:53

    Personally I would rather get the application taglib from the app context and use it like in the rest of the application.
    Like having this on a tools-class

    def getApplicationTagLib(){
    def ctx = ApplicationHolder.getApplication().getMainContext()
    return ctx.getBean(‘org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins.web.taglib.ApplicationTagLib’)
    }

    And then you can do in your service method

    def g = xyzTools.getApplicationTagLib()
    def msg = g.message(code:’message.code.to.translate’)

    That way you wouldn’t have to worry about passing the locale etc.

  6. Werner Says:
    August 7th, 2010 at 8:41

    import org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.ApplicationHolder