mongoose-i18n-localize

mongoose-i18n-localize is a mongoose plugin to support i18n and localization in your mongoose schemas.

It seems like mongoose-i18n is not longer supported and I didn't get it to work on my machine, so I decided to write my own version.

Usage

npm install mongoose-i18n-localize

Create your schema:

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var mongooseI18n = require('mongoose-i18n-localize');
 
var schema = new mongoose.Schema({
    name: {
        type: String,
        i18n: true
    }
});
 
schema.plugin(mongooseI18n, {
    locales: ['en', 'de']
});
 
var Model = mongoose.model('Name', schema);

This will create a structure like:

{
    name: {
        en: String,
        de: String
    }
}

All validators of name get also assigned to name.en and name.de.

mongoose-i18n-localize adds the methods toObjectLocalized(resource, locale) and toJSONLocalized(resource, locale) to the i18n schema methods. To set the locale of a resource to en, just do:

Model.find(function(err, resources) {
    var localizedResources = resources.toJSONLocalized('en');
});
 
//or
 
Model.find(function(err, resources) {
    var localizedResources = Model.schema.methods.toJSONLocalized(resources, 'en');
});

localizedResources has now the following structure:

[
    {
        name: {
            en: 'hello',
            de: 'hallo',
            localized: 'hello'
        }
    }
]

Use toObjectLocalized or toJSONLocalized according to toObject or toJSON.

If you only want to show only one locale message use the methods toObjectLocalizedOnly(resource, locale, localeDefault) or toJSONLocalizedOnly(resource, locale, localeDefault).

Tests

To run the tests you need a local MongoDB instance available. Run with:

npm test

Issues

Please use the GitHub issue tracker to raise any problems or feature requests.

If you would like to submit a pull request with any changes you make, please feel free!