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23 changes: 23 additions & 0 deletions grails-doc/src/en/guide/i18n/changingLocales.adoc
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Expand Up @@ -26,6 +26,29 @@ By default, the user locale is detected from the incoming `Accept-Language` head

Grails will automatically switch the user's locale and subsequent requests will use the switched locale.

To offer a language selector, the i18n plugin discovers the locales your application is actually translated into by scanning the classpath for `messages_&#42;.properties` bundles (plus the default locale, configurable via `grails.i18n.default.locale`). This list is exposed as the `AvailableLocaleResolver` bean and published to the servlet context under the `availableLocales` attribute. The `<g:localeSelect available="true"/>` tag renders a `<select>` limited to those locales, and you can iterate the list directly in a view to build your own switcher:

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This paragraph ends with "build your own switcher:" but the g:each example it introduces is pushed below the plugin-discovery paragraph and the YAML block. Reordering to intro → example → plugin-discovery paragraph → YAML would read better.


By default every `&#42;.properties` bundle on the classpath is considered, so locales contributed by plugins &mdash; whose bundles are namespaced (for example `spring-security-core_fr.properties`) &mdash; are listed alongside your application's own. Candidate suffixes are validated against `Locale.getISOLanguages()`, so non-i18n properties files (such as `application.properties`) are ignored. To restrict discovery to your application's own `messages_&#42;.properties` bundles, set `grails.i18n.availableLocales.includePlugins=false`:

[source,yaml]
.grails-app/conf/application.yml
----
grails:
i18n:
availableLocales:
includePlugins: false # list only the application's own translations
----


[source,xml]
----
<g:each in="${application.getAttribute('availableLocales')}" var="locale">
<a href="?lang=${locale.toLanguageTag()}">${locale.getDisplayName(locale)}</a>
</g:each>
----

Applications created with `grails create-app` include a ready-made language dropdown in the default layout that uses exactly this mechanism.

By default, Grails uses {springapi}org/springframework/web/servlet/i18n/SessionLocaleResolver.html[SessionLocaleResolver] as the `localeResolver` bean.

You can select a different resolver strategy with the `grails.i18n.localeResolver` configuration property, without declaring a bean:
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----
<!-- create a locale select -->
<g:localeSelect name="myLocale" value="${locale}" />

<!-- list only the locales the application is translated into -->
<g:localeSelect name="myLocale" available="true" />
----


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* `name` - The name to be used for the select box
* `value` (optional) - The selected {javase}java.base/java/util/Locale.html[Locale]; defaults to the current request locale if not specified
* `locale` (optional) - The {javase}java.base/java/util/Locale.html[Locale] to use for formatting the locale names. Defaults to the current request locale and then the system default locale if not specified
* `available` (optional) - If `true`, lists only the locales the application is actually translated into (those with a `messages_&#42;.properties` bundle on the classpath, as discovered by the i18n plugin) rather than every locale the JVM knows about. Defaults to `false`.


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<asset:image class="w-75" src="grails.svg" alt="Grails Logo"/>
</a>
<ul class="navbar-nav ms-auto">
<g:set var="availableLocales" value="${application.getAttribute('availableLocales')}"/>
<g:if test="${availableLocales && availableLocales.size() > 1}">
<g:set var="currentLocale" value="${org.springframework.web.servlet.support.RequestContextUtils.getLocale(request)}"/>
<li class="nav-item dropdown">
<a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" href="#" id="localeDropdown" role="button" data-bs-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="false">
<i class="bi bi-globe me-1"></i>${currentLocale.getDisplayName(currentLocale)}
</a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-end" aria-labelledby="localeDropdown">
<g:each in="${availableLocales}" var="availableLocale">
<li>
<a class="dropdown-item${availableLocale == currentLocale ? ' active' : ''}" href="?lang=${availableLocale.toLanguageTag()}">${availableLocale.getDisplayName(availableLocale)}</a>

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Two behavioural nits (both also apply to the identical copy in grails-profiles/web/skeleton/grails-app/views/layouts/main.gsp):

  1. availableLocale == currentLocale compares full locales, but currentLocale usually carries a country on first visit (e.g. en_US from Accept-Language) while the discovered list holds language-only locales — so the active highlight never fires until the user explicitly picks an entry. A language-level fallback comparison would behave better out of the box.
  2. href="?lang=..." replaces the entire query string, so switching language drops any existing request parameters (pagination, filters, etc.). Probably acceptable for the scaffold, but worth a conscious decision.

</li>
</g:each>
</ul>
</li>
</g:if>
<li class="nav-item dropdown">
<a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle d-flex align-items-center" href="#" id="themeDropdown" role="button" data-bs-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle theme">
<i class="bi bi-circle-half theme-icon-active"></i>
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output.containsKey("grails-app/views/notFound.gsp")
}

void "test default layout includes the language selector dropdown"() {
when:
final def output = generate(ApplicationType.WEB, new Options(DevelopmentReloading.DEVTOOLS))
final String layout = output["grails-app/views/layouts/main.gsp"]

then: "the navbar reads the i18n plugin's published available locales"
layout.contains("application.getAttribute('availableLocales')")

and: "and renders a Bootstrap dropdown that switches language via ?lang="
layout.contains("dropdown-toggle")
layout.contains('?lang=${availableLocale.toLanguageTag()}')
}

void "test default layout includes the light/dark/auto theme selector"() {
when:
final def output = generate(ApplicationType.WEB, new Options(DevelopmentReloading.DEVTOOLS))
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* @attr name REQUIRED The name of the select
* @attr value The set locale, defaults to the current request locale if not specified
* @attr locale The locale to use for formatting the locale names. Defaults to the current request locale and then the system default locale if not specified
* @attr available If <code>true</code>, list only the locales the application is translated into
* (those with a <code>messages_*.properties</code> bundle, as published to the servlet context by
* the i18n plugin) instead of every locale the JVM knows about. Defaults to <code>false</code>.
*/
def localeSelect(Map attrs) {
attrs.from = Locale.getAvailableLocales()
def availableAttr = attrs.remove('available')
boolean availableOnly = availableAttr != null && Boolean.valueOf(availableAttr.toString())
if (availableOnly) {
def availableLocales = request.servletContext?.getAttribute('availableLocales')
attrs.from = availableLocales ?: [RCU.getLocale(request)]
}
else {
attrs.from = Locale.getAvailableLocales()
}
attrs.value = (attrs.value ?: RCU.getLocale(request))?.toString()
// set the key as a closure that formats the locale
attrs.optionKey = { it.country ? "${it.language}_${it.country}" : it.language }
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/*
* Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
* or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
* distributed with this work for additional information
* regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
* to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
* "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
* with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
* software distributed under the License is distributed on an
* "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
* KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
* specific language governing permissions and limitations
* under the License.
*/
package org.grails.web.taglib

import grails.testing.web.taglib.TagLibUnitTest
import org.grails.plugins.web.taglib.FormTagLib
import spock.lang.Specification

/**
* Tests the {@code available="true"} mode of {@code g:localeSelect}, which restricts the options to
* the locales the i18n plugin publishes to the servlet context (the app's real translations) instead
* of every locale the JVM knows about.
*/
class LocaleSelectAvailableSpec extends Specification implements TagLibUnitTest<FormTagLib> {

void 'available="true" lists only the locales published to the servlet context'() {
given:
request.servletContext.setAttribute('availableLocales',
[Locale.forLanguageTag('en'), Locale.forLanguageTag('es')])

when:
String output = applyTemplate('<g:localeSelect name="lang" available="true"/>')

then: 'the two published locales are options'
output.contains('name="lang"')
output.contains('value="en"')
output.contains('value="es"')

and: 'a locale that has no bundle is not offered'
!output.contains('value="fr"')
}

void 'without available="true" the tag still lists every JVM locale'() {
when:
String output = applyTemplate('<g:localeSelect name="lang"/>')

then:
output.contains('value="fr"')
}

void 'an explicit available="false" keeps the full JVM locale list even when locales are published'() {
given:
request.servletContext.setAttribute('availableLocales',
[Locale.forLanguageTag('en'), Locale.forLanguageTag('es')])

when:
String output = applyTemplate('<g:localeSelect name="lang" available="false"/>')

then: 'a locale outside the published list is still offered'
output.contains('value="fr"')
}

void 'available="true" falls back to the current locale when nothing is published'() {
when:
String output = applyTemplate('<g:localeSelect name="lang" available="true"/>')

then: 'no servlet-context attribute is present, so the select is not empty and not the full JVM list'
output.contains('<select')
!output.contains('value="fr"')
}

void 'the published list can drive a custom link dropdown like the create-app layout does'() {
given: 'the same servlet-context attribute the i18n plugin publishes and the create-app main.gsp reads'
request.servletContext.setAttribute('availableLocales',
[Locale.forLanguageTag('en'), Locale.forLanguageTag('es')])

when: 'the navbar snippet from the generated layout is rendered'
String output = applyTemplate('''
<g:set var="availableLocales" value="${application.getAttribute('availableLocales')}"/>
<g:if test="${availableLocales && availableLocales.size() > 1}">
<g:each in="${availableLocales}" var="availableLocale">
<a href="?lang=${availableLocale.toLanguageTag()}">${availableLocale.getDisplayName(availableLocale)}</a>
</g:each>
</g:if>
'''.stripIndent())

then: 'one ?lang= link per published locale is produced'
output.contains('href="?lang=en"')
output.contains('href="?lang=es"')
}
}
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*/
package org.grails.plugins.i18n;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Set;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
import org.springframework.core.io.support.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver;
import org.springframework.core.io.support.ResourcePatternResolver;

/**
* Discovers the locales an application is actually translated into by scanning the
* classpath for {@code <basename>_<locale>.properties} resource bundles.
*
* <p>Unlike {@link java.util.Locale#getAvailableLocales()} (which returns every locale
* the JVM knows about), this returns only the locales that have a matching message
* bundle plus the configured default locale, making it suitable for driving a language
* selector. The result is sorted by each locale's display name in its own language and
* cached; {@link #clearCache()} forces a re-scan (used when bundles change in development).
*
* <p>By default only the application's own {@code messages_*.properties} bundles are
* scanned. When {@code includePluginBundles} is enabled, every {@code *.properties}
* bundle on the classpath is considered, so locales contributed by plugins &mdash; whose
* bundles are namespaced (e.g. {@code spring-security-core_fr.properties}) &mdash; are
* included too. Candidate suffixes are validated against {@link Locale#getISOLanguages()}
* so non-i18n properties files (e.g. {@code application.properties}) are ignored. See
* {@code grails.i18n.availableLocales.includePlugins}.
*
* @since 8.0.0
*/
public class AvailableLocaleResolver {

private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(AvailableLocaleResolver.class);

/** The base name of an application's own message bundles ({@code messages.properties}). */
public static final String DEFAULT_BASE_NAME = "messages";

private static final String PROPERTIES_SUFFIX = ".properties";

private static final Set<String> ISO_LANGUAGES = new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList(Locale.getISOLanguages()));

private final ResourcePatternResolver resourcePatternResolver;

private final Locale defaultLocale;

private final boolean includePluginBundles;

private volatile List<Locale> cachedLocales;

/**
* Scans only the application's own {@code messages_*.properties} bundles.
*
* @param classLoader the class loader whose classpath is scanned for message bundles
* @param defaultLocale the locale of the base {@code messages.properties} bundle,
* always included in the result (may be {@code null} to include none)
*/
public AvailableLocaleResolver(ClassLoader classLoader, Locale defaultLocale) {
this(classLoader, defaultLocale, false);
}

/**
* @param classLoader the class loader whose classpath is scanned for message bundles
* @param defaultLocale the locale of the base bundle, always included (may be {@code null})
* @param includePluginBundles whether to also consider plugin-contributed bundles (every
* {@code *.properties} on the classpath) rather than only the application's {@code messages}
*/
public AvailableLocaleResolver(ClassLoader classLoader, Locale defaultLocale, boolean includePluginBundles) {
this.resourcePatternResolver = new PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver(classLoader);
this.defaultLocale = defaultLocale;
this.includePluginBundles = includePluginBundles;
}

/**
* @return an unmodifiable, display-name-sorted list of the locales the application is
* translated into. Computed once and cached until {@link #clearCache()} is called.
*/
public List<Locale> getAvailableLocales() {
List<Locale> locales = this.cachedLocales;
if (locales == null) {
synchronized (this) {
locales = this.cachedLocales;
if (locales == null) {
locales = computeAvailableLocales();
this.cachedLocales = locales;
}
}
}
return locales;
}

/**
* Discards the cached list so the next {@link #getAvailableLocales()} re-scans the classpath.
*/
public void clearCache() {
this.cachedLocales = null;
}

private List<Locale> computeAvailableLocales() {
Set<Locale> locales = new LinkedHashSet<>();
if (this.defaultLocale != null && !this.defaultLocale.getLanguage().isEmpty()) {
locales.add(this.defaultLocale);
}
String pattern = "classpath*:" + DEFAULT_BASE_NAME + "_*" + PROPERTIES_SUFFIX;
if (this.includePluginBundles) {
pattern = "classpath*:*" + PROPERTIES_SUFFIX;
}
try {
for (Resource resource : this.resourcePatternResolver.getResources(pattern)) {
Locale locale = localeFromBundleFilename(resource.getFilename());
if (locale != null) {
locales.add(locale);
}
}
}
catch (IOException ex) {
log.warn("Unable to resolve available locales from message bundles: {}", ex.getMessage());
}
List<Locale> sorted = new ArrayList<>(locales);
sorted.sort(Comparator.comparing((Locale locale) -> locale.getDisplayName(locale)));
return Collections.unmodifiableList(sorted);
}

/**
* Extracts the locale a bundle filename encodes, or {@code null} if it is not a locale-specific
* message bundle. The base name ends at the first underscore (matching Grails' own message-source
* convention, where plugin base names use hyphens), and the suffix must be a recognised language.
*/
private static Locale localeFromBundleFilename(String filename) {
if (filename == null || !filename.endsWith(PROPERTIES_SUFFIX)) {
return null;
}
String base = filename.substring(0, filename.length() - PROPERTIES_SUFFIX.length());
int underscore = base.indexOf('_');
if (underscore < 0) {
return null;
}
String code = base.substring(underscore + 1);
if (code.isEmpty()) {
return null;
}
Locale locale = Locale.forLanguageTag(code.replace('_', '-'));
return ISO_LANGUAGES.contains(locale.getLanguage()) ? locale : null;

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Only the language subtag is validated, so with includePlugins=true (the default) any root-level properties file whose suffix happens to parse to a known language leaks into the selector:

  • db_it.properties → contributes Italian
  • foo_en_prod.propertiesforLanguageTag("en-prod") treats prod as a script subtag, producing an en-Prod locale that passes the ISO-language check and shows up as a second English-looking entry

Since .properties bundles follow the basename_language(_COUNTRY(_variant)) convention rather than BCP 47, validating the whole suffix (ISO language, and ISO country when present) before accepting it would cut these false positives down considerably.

}

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