How do you localize/internationalize an MVC Controller when using a SQL based localization provider?
- by EBarr
Hopefully this isn't too silly of a question. In MVC there appears to be plenty of localization support in the views. Once I get to the controller, however, it becomes murky.
Using meta:resourcekey="blah" is out, same with <%$ Resources:PageTitle.Text%.
ASP.NET MVC - Localization Helpers -- suggested extensions for the Html helper classes like Resource(this Controller controller, string expression, params object[] args). Similarly, Localize your MVC with ease suggested a slightly different extension like Localize(this System.Web.UI.UserControl control, string resourceKey, params object[] args)
None of these approaches works while in a controller. I put together the below function and I'm using the controllers full class name as my VirtualPath. But I'm new to MVC and assume there's a better way.
public static string Localize (System.Type theType, string resourceKey, params object[] args) {
string resource = (HttpContext.GetLocalResourceObject(theType.FullName, resourceKey) ?? string.Empty).ToString();
return mergeTokens(resource, args);
}
Thoughts? Comments?
