Adding International support in Erlang Web 1.4

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Published on 2010-03-22T18:15:58Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 18:21 UTC
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I'm trying to add international support for a website based on the Erlang Web 1.4.

I would like to have a couple of links on every page (the notorious Country flags) that allow the user to set his language session variable.

What I have right now is a link like:

<li><a href="/session/language/en">English</a></li>

Where, in the session controller I do:

language(Args) ->
    LanguageId = proplists:get_value(id, Args),
    case language_is_supported(LanguageId) of
        false ->
            ok;
        true ->
            wpart:fset("session:lang", LanguageId)
    end,
    {redirect, "/"}.

The problem is that, after setting the preferred language, I would like the user to be redirected to the page he was visiting before changing the language. In this case the "__path" variable doesn't help because it contains the language request and not the "previous" one.

How could I resolve this situation? I'm probably using the wrong approach but I cannot thing to anything else right now.

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