Usage

Using Specific Widgets in the TranslationInline form of the admin:

You can specify the widget to be use on an inline form by passing a dictionary to TranslationInlineForm. So, you might want to extend the TranslationInline with a new form that will a “widgets” dictionary, where you can specify the widget that each filds has to use, for example:

class RichTranslationInlineForm(TranslationInlineForm):
    widgets = {
        'CharField': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'klingon-char-field'}),
        'TextField': forms.Textarea(attrs={'class': 'klingon-text-field'}),
    }

class RichTranslationInline(TranslationInline):
    form = RichTranslationInlineForm

and then you just simply use the RichTranslationInline class on your AdminModels, for example:

class BookAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    inlines = [RichTranslationInline]
  • see full example in example_project folder of source code of klingon

Using the API

To create the translation you can do the follwing:

Suppose that you have and object called book:

> book = Book.objects.create(
    title="The Raven",
    description="The Raven is a narrative poem",
    publication_date=datetime.date(1845, 1, 1)
)

you can create translation for that instances like this:

> book.set_translation('es', 'title', 'El Cuervo')
> book.set_translation('es', 'description', 'El Cuervo es un poema narrativo')

a translation could be access individually:

> self.book.get_translation('es', 'title')
'El Cuervo'
> book.get_translation('es', 'description')
'El Cuervo es un poema narrativo'

or you can get all translations together:

> self.book.translations('es')
{
    'title': self.es_title,
    'description': self.es_description,
}