Locale specific templates about makara HOT 4 CLOSED

I'm pretty sure you don't need to customize formatPath. That is only responsible for the filesystem lookup of properties files based on the bcp47-style locale object.

I'm working through an example to see if I can give you a good recommendation for your use case.

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What do you think about using dynamic partial naming as described here: https://github.com/linkedin/dustjs/wiki/Dust-little-less-know-language-constructs#dynamic-partials

Then you'd have something like this:

/templates
    index.dust
    /partials
        myview-US.dust
        myview-GB.dust

And properties structure:

/locales
    /GB
        /en
            myview-GB.properties
    /US
        /en
            myview-GB.properties
            myview-US.properties

You would want to have all possible properties files defined in your default locale (en-US) and then override properties files per applicable locale.

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Thanks Matt.

The application already implements dynamic partials exactly as you describe. However, I don't understand why we need/want a /US/en/myview-GB.properties file when the path clearly states that the country is US. I am not crazy about having the country code as part of the filenames, especially in properties files.

I think it would be cleaner if there would be a single property file per locale, and that the property filename not specify any additional country codes. For dust files the country code is needed to differentiate the template, but I think it's better to place the code in the folder path instead of filename. Both ideas are in my original post example.

Thank you!

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If you're already dynamically selecting partials from the directory structure you've outlined, then you should just be able to use the useContent helper to select the appropriate properties file.

E.g.

/templates/US/myview.dust

{@useContent bundle="myview.properties"}

...

{/useContent}

You will have to add the argument to dust-makara-helpers to not infer the properties name/location from the template name/location:

config.json (typical)

"dust": {
        "helpers": [
            {
                "name": "dust-makara-helpers",
                "arguments": { "autoloadTemplateContent": false }
            }
        ]
    },

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