i18n_extension 14.0.0-dev.3 changelog

14.0.0-dev.3 #

Version 14 brings important improvements, like new interpolation methods, useful extensions, and improved standardization, with the cost of a few breaking changes that are easy to fix. Please, follow the instructions below to upgrade your code.

Breaking Change: Now, you must have a single (no more than one) I18n widget in your entire widget tree, and it must always be put ABOVE the MaterialApp (or CupertinoApp) widget, in the tree. There, it will be able to provide translations to all your routes and dialogs.
Breaking Change: You must now add the line locale: I18n.locale to your MaterialApp (or CupertinoApp) widget, like this:
```
MaterialApp(
   locale: I18n.locale,
   ...      
```

Breaking Change: Because of the way Flutter works, you have to make sure your I18n widget is NOT declared in the same widget as the MaterialApp, but in a parent widget. For example, this is WRONG:

Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return I18n( // Wrong!
    child: MaterialApp(
      home: MyScreen(),

Instead, this is how your main.dart file could look like:

import 'package:i18n_extension/i18n_extension.dart';
import 'package:flutter_localizations/flutter_localizations.dart';
         
void main() {
  WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
  runApp(MyApp());
}
  
class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return I18n( // I18n in a parent widget!
      child: AppCore(),
    );
  }
}
  
class AppCore extends StatelessWidget {
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp( // MaterialApp is here!
      locale: I18n.locale, // Locale declaration is here!
      localizationsDelegates: [ ... ],
      supportedLocales: [ ... ],
      home: ...
    ),

Another good alternative is declaring the I18n widget directly inside the runApp call, in your main function:

void main() {
  WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
  runApp(I18n(child: AppCore())); // I18n in a parent widget!
}
  
class AppCore extends StatelessWidget {
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp( // MaterialApp is here!
      locale: I18n.locale, // Locale declaration is here!
      localizationsDelegates: ...
    ),

Breaking Change: The MaterialApp (or CupertinoApp) widget contains, internally, a Localizations widget, which is used by Flutter to provide translations to all native Flutter widgets. The I18n widget will now automatically keep in sync with this Localizations widget, so that when you change the locale in I18n (with context.locale = 'en-US'.asLocale, for example), it will also change automatically in the Localizations widget. This means that Localizations.of(context).locale will always return the same result as I18n.of(context).locale, as context.locale, and as I18n.locale.

If you previously had your own logic to change the native Localizations locale by changing the locale parameter of the MaterialApp widget, you can now remove it, as this is not necessary anymore.
Breaking Change: Language codes must now respect the BCP47 standard, when you define your translations.
For example, you should now use en-US instead of the old en_us format. Other valid code examples are: en, es-419, hi-Deva-IN and zh-Hans-CN.

This is an example of a WRONG translation definition:
```
// Will throw: Locale "en_us" should be "en-US" 
Translations.byText('en_us') + // Wrong!
   {
      'en_us': 'Hello, how are you?',  // Wrong!
      'pt_br': 'Olá, como vai você?',  // Wrong!
      'es': '¿Hola! Cómo estás?',
      'fr': 'Salut, comment ca va?',
      'de': 'Hallo, wie geht es dir?',
   };
```
To help you upgrade, a TranslationsException error will be thrown when you use the old code format. The error message will be something like: Locale "en_us" should be "en-US"

This is an example of a VALID and correct translation definition:
```
Translations.byText('en-US') +
   {
      'en-US': 'Hello, how are you?',
      'pt-BR': 'Olá, como vai você?',
      'es': '¿Hola! Cómo estás?',
      'fr': 'Salut, comment ca va?',
      'de': 'Hallo, wie geht es dir?',
   };
```
Note: If your translations are defined manually in the code, you can quickly fix this by doing a few Search and Replace commands in your IDE to fix the language codes, one for each of your supported languages, for example, replacing 'en_us' with 'en-US' etc.
New extension Locale.format can be used to return the string representation of the Locale as a valid BCP47 language tag (compatible with the Unicode Locale Identifier (ULI) syntax). If the locale is not valid, format may return an invalid tag, or may return string "und" (undefined).
The language code, script code, and country code will be separated by a hyphen, and any lowercase/uppercase issues will be fixed. For example:
```
var locale = Locale('en', 'us');
print(locale.format()); // en-US, which is a valid BCP47 language tag
print(locale.toString()); // en_US
print(locale.toLanguageTag()); // en-us
```
Using format is recommended over toString and toLanguageTag (both natively provided by the Locale class). In more detail:
- Locale.format() returns the string representation of the Locale as a valid BCP47 language tag, fixing any lowercase/uppercase issues and separating components with a hyphen. Allows specifying a different separator. For example, Locale('en', 'us').format() returns en-US, and Locale('en', 'US').format(separator: '|') returns en|US.
- Locale.toString() returns the language, script and country codes separated by an underscore. For example, Locale('en', 'us').toString() returns en_us and Locale('en', 'US').toString() returns en_US.
- Locale.toLanguageTag() returns the language code and the country code separated by a hyphen, but does not fix case. For example, Locale('en', 'us').toLanguageTag() returns en-us, and Locale('en', 'US').toLanguageTag() returns en-US.
New extension String.asLocale can be used to convert a String containing a BCP47 language tag to a Locale object. For example: Locale locale = 'pt-BR'.asLocale;. If the string is not a valid BCP47 language, asLocale will try to fix it. For example, the following lines are all equivalent and result in the same locale:
```
var locale = Locale('en', 'US'); 
var locale = 'en-US'.asLocale; 
var locale = 'en_US'.asLocale; 
var locale = 'en-us'.asLocale; 
var locale = 'EN-US'.asLocale; 
var locale = 'en US'.asLocale; 
var locale = 'en|US'.asLocale; 
var locale = 'en.uS'.asLocale; 
var locale = 'eN,US'.asLocale; 
var locale = 'en;US'.asLocale; 
var locale = 'en, US'.asLocale; 
```
However, it will only fix the most common errors, by fixing lowercase/uppercase issues, removing spaces, and converting all these separators: - _ | . , ; to hyphens. If it can’t fix it, it will return an invalid Locale, or maybe Locale('und'), meaning the locale is undefined.

Note that String.asLocale can be used whenever you previously used Locale constructors. For example, instead of:
```
supportedLocales: [
  Locale('en', 'US'),
  Locale('es', 'ES'),
],
```
You can now write:
```
supportedLocales: [
  'en-US'.asLocale,
  'es-ES'.asLocale,    
],
```
New extension String.asLanguageTag can be used to try and normalize String language tags to the BCP47 standard (which is compatible with the Unicode Locale Identifier (ULI) syntax). It fixes casing (uppercase and lowercase), removes spaces, and turns underscores into hyphens. As such, it can be used to convert the old format language tags to the new ones. For example: 'en_us'.asLanguageTag returns 'en-US'.

Interpolations. You can now do string interpolations by replacing placeholders with values, with the args function:

// Hello John and Mary
'Hello {} and {}'.i18n.args('John', 'Mary');
  
// Also works with iterables
'Hello {} and {}'.i18n.args(['John', 'Mary']);
  
// Named placeholders
'Hello {name} and {other}'.i18n.args({'name': 'John', 'other': 'Mary'});
  
// Numbered placeholders
'Hello {1} and {2}'.i18n.args({1: 'John', 2: 'Mary'});
  
// And you can mix placeholder types
'Hello {name}, let’s meet up with {} and {other} to explore {1} and {2}.'.i18n.args('Charlie', {'name': 'Alice', 'other': 'Bob'}, {1: 'Paris', 2: 'London'});

For all the details, check the README.md file.

Breaking Change: Previously, you could also do string interpolation by using sprintf specifiers, like %s, %1$s, %d etc., and providing a list of values to fill them. This is still supported:
```
// Hello John and Mary
'Hello %s and %s'.i18n.fill(['John', 'Mary']);
  
// Hello John and Mary
'Hello %1$s and %2$s'.i18n.fill(['John', 'Mary']);  
  
// Hello Mary and John  
'Hello %2$s and %1$s'.i18n.fill(['John', 'Mary']);  
```
However, you can now also provide the values directly, without having to wrap them in a list:
```
'Hello %s and %s'.i18n.fill('John', 'Mary');
'Hello %1$s and %2$s'.i18n.fill('John', 'Mary');
'Hello %2$s and %1$s'.i18n.fill('John', 'Mary');
```
The breaking change part of it is that, previously, if you wanted to use the fill extension you needed to declare it yourself in your translations files. Now, that's not necessary anymore, as this extension is provided out of the box. For this reason, if you declared the fill extension yourself, you now need to remove it. Otherwise, the compiler will complain that the extension is declared twice. If you still want to keep your old declaration, change its name.
Auto saving the locale. Some apps may allow the user to change the language/locale of the app, from inside the app. You'd usually create some widget that presents the list of available locales, and then set it with context.locale = 'es-ES'.asLocale; or similar.

If you want that user choice to be saved between app restarts, simply set the autoSaveLocale parameter to true:
```
I18n(
  autoSaveLocale: true,
  child: AppCore(),
  ...
```
This will automatically save changes to the locale in the device's storage (shared preferences), and restore it when the app restarts. Note the locale is read asynchronously, which may result in a one frame flicker of the default system locale, before the saved locale is restored. If you want to avoid this flicker, you can explicitly preload the locale yourself by doing initialLocale: await I18n.loadLocale() when the app starts.
```
void main() async {
  WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
   
  runApp(
    I18n(
      initialLocale: await I18n.loadLocale(),
      autoSaveLocale: true, 
      child: AppCore(),    
      ...
```
Note: While usually not needed, you can also manually load, save and delete the locale from the shared preferences, at any later time, by using the provided static functions: var locale = await I18n.loadLocale(), I18n.saveLocale(locale) and I18n.deleteLocale().

You can get the current locale by using the context:

Locale locale = context.locale;
Locale locale = I18n.of(context).locale;

However, you can also get the locale statically, allowing you to use it in non-widget code:

// Get a `Locale` object, like Locale('en', 'US') 
Locale locale = I18n.locale;
  
// Or get a BCP47 language tag string, like 'en-US'
String languageTag = I18n.languageTag;
String languageTag = I18n.locale.format();
  
// Or get a locale string with a specific separator, like 'en|US'
String languageTag = I18n.locale.format(separator: '|');
  
// Or get only the lowercase language code part of the locale, like 'en'.
String language = I18n.language;

Note, using I18n.localeStr is deprecated. It returns a lowercase string with underscores, like en_us.

To change the current locale, do this:

context.locale = Locale('pt', 'BR');
  
// Or
context.locale = 'pt-BR'.asLocale;
  
// Or
I18n.of(context).locale = 'pt-BR'.asLocale;

To reset the current locale back to the default system locale, do this:

context.locale = null;
  
// Or
context.resetLocale();
  
// Or
I18n.of(context).locale = null;
  
// Or
I18n.of(context).resetLocale();

Note, any of the above will change the current locale for your widgets using the i18n_extension, and also for native Flutter widgets.

Breaking Change: The fallback rules changed a little bit. What happens when you don’t provide the translations for the current locale? For example, suppose your current locale is Spanish, but you have only provided translations for English and French. Fallback behavior is now more intuitive and aligned with common sense. In most cases, it will do exactly what you’d expect. However, if you want all the details, check the README.md file.

Reading translations from files

If you want to load translations from files in your assets directory, create a folder and add some translation files like this:

assets
└── translations
    ├── en-US.json
    ├── es-ES.json
    ├── zh-Hans-CN.json
    └── pt.json

Don't forget to declare your assets directory in your pubspec.yaml:

flutter:
  assets:
    - assets/translations/

Then, you can load the translations using Translations.byFile():

extension MyTranslations on String {
  static final _t = Translations.byFile('en-US', dir: 'assets/translations');     
  String get i18n => localize(this, _t);  
}

The above code will asynchronously load all the translations from the .json files present in the assets/translations directory, and then rebuild your widgets with those new translations.

Note: Since rebuilding widgets when the translations finish loading can cause a visible flicker, you can optionally avoid that by preloading the translations before running your app. To that end, first create a load() method in your MyTranslations extension:

extension MyTranslations on String {
  static final _t = Translations.byFile('en-US', dir: 'assets/translations');  
  String get i18n => localize(this, _t);  
    
  static Future<void> load() => _t.load(); // Here!  
}

And then, in your main() method, call MyTranslations.load() before running the app:

void main() async {
  WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
    
  await MyTranslations.load(); // Here!
    
  runApp(
    I18n(
      initialLocale: await I18n.loadLocale(),
      autoSaveLocale: true,
      child: AppCore(),
    ),
  );
}

Another alternative is using a FutureBuilder:

return FutureBuilder(
  future: MyTranslations.load(),
  builder: (context, snapshot) {
    if (snapshot.connectionState == ConnectionState.done) {
    return MyWidget(...);
  } else {
    return const Center(child: CircularProgressIndicator());
  } ...

12.0.1 #

Compatible with Flutter 3.22.0 and Dart 3.4.0

11.0.13 #

BREAKING CHANGE: Replace the previous Translations() constructor with Translations.byText(). Like before, it supports String as translation keys, organized per key.
The previous Translations.byLocale() works just as before. Like before, it supports String as translation keys, organized per locale.
Translation subtype TranslationsByLocale still exist, but it's not visible anymore. If you were writing TranslationsByLocale t = new TranslationsByLocale(... you should now write var t = Translations.byLocale(..., or Translations t = Translations.byLocale(...
Now you can use ANY object type as translation keys. Before, it was only possible to use strings as translation keys. You can now use Translations.byId() and provide the type T of your identifier. Your T can be anything, including String, int, double, DateTime, or even your own custom object types, as long as they implement == and hashCode. If you use Object or Object?/dynamic then anything can be translated. Don’t forget that your extensions, like .i18n, will need to be on your type. For example, if you use int as your key type, then you will need to declare extension Localization on int { ... }.
If you want to provide translations as a const map, and String as translation keys, use the const ConstTranslations() constructor.
To sum up:
- Translations.byText() supports String as translation keys, organized per key.
- Translations.byLocale() supports String as translation keys, organized per locale.
- Translations.byId<T>() supports any object of type T as translation keys.
- const ConstTranslations() supports defining translations with a const Map, and String as translation keys.
Now the core features of the i18n_extension package are available as a standalone Dart-only package: https://pub.dev/packages/i18n_extension_core. You may use that core package when you are developing a Dart server (backend), or when developing your own Dart-only package that does not depend on Flutter.

For Flutter applications nothing changes. You don’t need to import the core package directly. You should continue to use this i18n_extension package, which already exports the core code plus the I18n widget that you use to wrap your widget tree.

10.0.3 #

The importer library developed by Johann Bauer is now independently available as a standalone package. You can find it at https://pub.dev/packages/i18n_extension_importer. This new package offers capabilities for importing translations in both .PO and .JSON formats. It also includes the GetStrings exporting utility, which is a useful script designed to automate the export of all translatable strings from your project.
Removed unused packages that were previously used by the removed importer.

9.0.2 #

Flutter 3.10 e Dart 3.0.0
Removed the importer library developed by Johann Bauer, so that users of i18n_extension don’t need to import the analyzer and other unnecessary dependencies. See version [10.0.2] above.

8.0.0 #

Breaking change: Removed dependency on analyzer and gettext_parser. The getStrings doesn’t work in this version.

6.0.0 #

Analyzer and sprintf version bump.

5.0.1 #

Analyzer version bump.

5.0.0 #

Flutter 3.0

4.2.1 #

The localizePlural method now accepts any object (not only an integer anymore). It will convert that object into an integer, and use that result. Se the method documentation for more information. To make use of it, you may declare your plural() methods as String plural(value) => localizePlural(value, this, _t); from now on. Example: 'This is one item'.plural(2) is now the same as writing 'This is one item'.plural('2').

4.1.3 #

Bump version. Docs improvement.

4.1.1 #

.po importer fix.

4.1.0 #

Removed useless uses-material-design: true.
Bumped dependencies versions (in special args: ^2.0.0).

4.0.3 #

Plural support for the .PO importer.

4.0.2 #

Downgraded args: 1.6.0 to be compatible with flutter_driver.
Better NNBD.

4.0.0 #

Now allows both string-keys (like 'Hello there'.i18n as shown in the example1 dir) and identifier-keys (like greetings.i18n as shown in the example2 dir).
Breaking change: If some translation did not exist in some language, it would show the translation key itself as the missing translation. This worked well with string-keys, but not with identifier-keys. Now, if some translation is missing, it first tries to show the untranslated string, and only if that is missing too it shows the key as the translation. This change is unlikely to be noticed by anyone, but still a breaking change.

3.0.3 #

Nullsafety.
Breaking change: During app initialization, the system locale may be null for a few moments. During this time, in prior version 2.0.0 it would use the Translations default locale. Now, in version 3.0.0, it will use the global locale defined in I18n.defaultLocale, which by default is Locale('en', 'US'). You can change this default in your app's main method.
New Translations.from() constructor, which responds better to hot reload.
Fixed the PO importer to ignore empty keys.
The docs now explain better how to add plurals with translations by locale.

2.0.0 #

Plural modifiers: zeroOne (for 0 or 1 elements), and oneOrMore (for 1 and more elements).
Fix for when no applicable plural modifier is found. It now correctly defaults to the unversioned string.

1.5.1 #

.PO and .JSON importers contributed by Johann Bauer.

1.4.6 #

Sprintf version bump to 5.0.0.

1.4.5 #

Added key and id to I18n widget constructor.

1.4.3 #

Better error message for I18n.of.

1.4.2 #

Bumped sprintf to version 4.1.0, which adds compatibility for future Dart features that require a Dart SDK constraint with a lower bound that is >=2.0.0.

1.4.1 #

Allow multi-line statements in getstrings utility.

1.4.0 #

More plural modifiers: three, four, five, six, and ten.
For Czech language: twoThreeFour plural modifier.

1.3.9 #

GetStrings exporting utility.

1.3.5 #

Added fill() method to default.i18n.dart.

1.3.4 #

Don’t record unnecessary missing translations with the Translation.byLocale constructor.

1.3.3 #

Commented unnecessary tests.

1.3.2 #

Added localizationsDelegates and supportedLocales to the docs.

1.3.0 #

I18n.observeLocale() can be used to observe locale changes.
Breaking change: Accepts Locale('en", 'US'), but not Locale('en_US') anymore, which was wrong. See "A quick recap of Dart locales" in the docs, for more details.

1.2.0 #

Fill fix. Docs improvement.

1.1.3 #

Interpolation.

1.1.1 #

Better fallback.

1.0.9 #

Default import records keys.

1.0.3 #

First working version.

0.0.1 #

Initial commit on Oct 19, 2019.

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