Django 2 by Example

Adapting views for translations

We have to adapt our shop views to use translation QuerySets. Run the following command to open the Python shell:

python manage.py shell

Let's take a look at how you can retrieve and query translation fields. To get the object with translatable fields translated in a specific language, you can use Django's activate() function as follows:

>>> from shop.models import Product>>> from django.utils.translation import activate>>> activate('es')>>> product=Product.objects.first()>>> product.name'Té verde'

Another way to do this is by using the language() manager provided by django-parler as follows:

>>> product=Product.objects.language('en').first()>>> product.name'Green tea'

When you access translated fields, they ...