Data::Localize - Alternate Data Localization API
use Data::Localize; my $loc = Data::Localize->new(); $loc->add_localizer( class => "Namespace", # Locale::Maketext-style .pm files namespaces => [ "MyApp::I18N" ] ); $loc->add_localizer( class => "Gettext", path => "/path/to/localization/data/*.po" ); $loc->set_languages(); # or explicitly set one # $loc->set_languages('en', 'ja' ); # looks under $self->languages, and checks if there are any # localizers that can handle the job $loc->localize( 'Hellow, [_1]!', 'John Doe' ); # You can enable "auto", which will be your last resort fallback. # The key you give to the localize method will be used as the lexicon $self->auto(1);
Data::Localize is an object oriented approach to localization, aimed to be an alternate choice for Locale::Maketext, Locale::Maketext::Lexicon, and Locale::Maketext::Simple.
Functionality-wise, Locale::Maketext does what it advertises to do. Here's a few reasons why you might or might not choose Data::Localize over Locale::Maketext-based localizers:
Data::Localize is completely object-oriented. YMMV.
On some my benchmarks, Data::Localize is faster than Locale::Maketext by 50~80%. (But see PERFORMANCE)
Whereas Locale::Maketext generally stores the lexicons in memory, Data::Localize allows you to store this data in alternate storage. By default Data::Localize comes with a BerkeleyDB backend.
Data::Localize is a wrapper around various Data::Localize::Localizer implementers (localizers). So if you don't specify any localizers, Data::Localize will do... nothing (unless you specify auto).
auto
Localizers are the objects that do the actual localization. Localizers must register themselves to the Data::Localize parent, noting which languages it can handle (which usually is determined by the presence of data files like en.po, ja.po, etc). A special language ID of '*' is used to accept fallback cases. Localizers registered to handle '*' will be tried after all other language possibilities have been exhausted.
If the particular localizer cannot deal with the requested string, then it simply returns nothing.
Locale::Maketext allows you to supply an "_AUTO" key in the lexicon hash, which allows you to pass a non-existing key to the localize() method, and use it as the actual lexicon, if no other applicable lexicons exists.
Locale::Maketext attaches this to the lexicon hash itself, but Data::Localizer differs in that it attaches to the Data::Localizer object itself, so you don't have to place _AUTO everywhere.
# here, we're deliberately not setting any localizers my $loc = Data::Localize->new(auto => 1); # previous auto => 1 will force Data::Localize to fallback to # using the key ('Hello, [_1]') as the localization token. print $loc->localize('Hello, [_1]', 'John Doe'), "\n";
All data is expected to be in decoded utf8. You must "use utf8" or decode them to Perl's internal representation for all values passed to Data::Localizer. We won't try to be smart for you. USE UTF8!
use Encode q(decode decode_utf8); use Data::Localizer; my $loc = Data::Localize->new(...); $loc->localize( $key, decode( 'iso-2022-jp', $value ) ); # if $value is encoded utf8... # $loc->localize( $key, decode_utf8( $value ) );
"use utf8" is simpler, but do note that it will affect ALL your literal strings in the current scope
use utf8; $loc->localize( $key, "some-utf8-key-here" );
By default all lexicons are stored on memory, but if you're building an app with thousands and thousands of long messages, this might not be the ideal solution. In such cases, you can change where the lexicons get stored
my $loc = Data::Localize->new(); $loc->add_localizer( class => 'Gettext', path => '/path/to/data/*.po' storage_class => 'BerkeleyDB', storage_args => { dir => '/path/to/really/fast/device' } );
This would cause Data::Localize to put all the lexicon data in several BerkeleyDB files under /path/to/really/fast/device
Note that this approach would buy you no gain if you use Data::Localize::Namespace, as that approach by default expects everything to be in memory.
To enable debug tracing, either set DATA_LOCALIZE_DEBUG environment variable,
DATA_LOCALIZE_DEBUG=1 ./yourscript.pl
or explicitly define a function before loading Data::Localize:
BEGIN { *Data::Localize::DEBUG = sub () { 1 }; } use Data::Localize;
Adds a new localizer. You may either pass a localizer object, or arguments to your localizer's constructor:
$loc->add_localizer( YourLocalizer->new ); $loc->add_localizer( class => "Namespace", namespaces => [ 'Blah' ] );
Localize the given string ID, using provided variables.
$localized_string = $loc->localize( $id, @args );
Detects the current set of languages to use. If used in an CGI environment, will attempt to detect the language of choice from headers. See I18N::LanguageTags::Detect for details.
Detects the language from the given header value, or from HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGES environment variable
Return a arrayref of localizers
Used internally.
Finds a localizer by its attribute. Currently only supports isa
my @locs = $loc->find_localizers(isa => 'Data::Localize::Gettext');
If used without any arguments, calls detect_languages() and sets the current language set to the result of detect_languages().
Gets the current list of languages
Return the number of localizers available
Get appropriate localizer for language $lang
Filter localizers
tl;dr: Use one that fits your needs
This benchmark assumes that you're fetching the lexicon anew for every request. This allows you to switch languages for every request
Benchmark run with Mac OS X (10.8.2) perl 5.16.1
Running benchmarks with Locale::Maketext: 1.23 Data::Localize: 0.00023 Rate D::L(Namespace) L::M D::L(Gettext) D::L(Gettext+BDB) D::L(Namespace) 5051/s -- -65% -73% -73% L::M 14423/s 186% -- -24% -24% D::L(Gettext) 18868/s 274% 31% -- -1% D::L(Gettext+BDB) 18987/s 276% 32% 1% --
This benchmark assumes that you're fetching the lexicon once for a particular language, and you keep it in memory for reuse. This does NOT allow you to switch languages for every request.
Running benchmarks with Locale::Maketext: 1.23 Data::Localize: 0.00023 Rate D::L(Namespace) D::L(Gettext+BDB) D::L(Gettext) L::M D::L(Namespace) 6023/s -- -65% -69% -96% D::L(Gettext+BDB) 17202/s 186% -- -12% -87% D::L(Gettext) 19548/s 225% 14% -- -86% L::M 135993/s 2158% 691% 596% --
Gettext style localization files -- Make it possible to decode them
Dave Rolsky
Daisuke Maki <daisuke@endeworks.jp>
<daisuke@endeworks.jp>
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To install Data::Localize, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Data::Localize
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Data::Localize
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.