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Play Framework essentials

You're reading from   Play Framework essentials An intuitive guide to creating easy-to-build scalable web applications using the Play framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783982400
Length 200 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Building a Web Service FREE CHAPTER 2. Persisting Data and Testing 3. Turning a Web Service into a Web Application 4. Integrating with Client-side Technologies 5. Reactively Handling Long-running Requests 6. Leveraging the Play Stack – Security, Internationalization, Cache, and the HTTP Client 7. Scaling Your Codebase and Deploying Your Application Index

Serving content in several languages


Play comes with handy support for internationalization so that you can define the messages of your application in several languages and automatically select the language to use according to the user preferences (as defined by the Accept-Language request header).

When a user performs a request to a server from his web browser, this one usually sets an Accept-Language header according to the user preferences. For instance, in my case, it is the following:

Accept-Language:en,en-US;q=0.8,fr;q=0.6,fr-FR;q=0.4

This means that the language I prefer to read is English and then French. The preference level is defined by the q factor. If there is no q factor associated with a language (for instance, en, in the preceding code), its value defaults to 1 (highest preference).

So, when I request a page, the server should serve the English version of the page if it has one, or the French version. This means that the server has to choose, among the languages it supports,...

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