allow $translate service to return objects & arrays

Hi, I was wondering whether it’s possible to not only ‘translate’ strings but also objects & arrays.

Here’s what I mean: I’m using a calendar, namely this one http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar/ Configuration happens in a controller using an object for configuration. Configuring the title format would look something like this:

titleFormat : {
     "month": "MMMM yyyy",
     "day": "ddd, d. MMM, yyyy"
}

now these formats should depend on the selected language. Therefore I hoped I could just write

titleFormat: $translate('TITLE_FORMAT');

and provide the appropriate config in my translation. Unfortunately this doesn’t achieve what I was hoping. I thought I could bypass this by writing a custom interpolator, but that didn’t seem to work either.

What do you think? - Is this something you might include in future releases, or is there another way to achieve this, which I just haven’t figured out yet?

[bdurrer]

I got here because I wanted to put list of available formats of an datepicker into an array. But the workaround is actually really easy enough: Just put the list of date formats into a single string, separate them with something (eg semicolon) and split them after loading.

$scope.dateFormats = $translate.instant('datepicker.dateFormats').split(';');

For lists you’ll be repeating over them anyway, so you can just use {{'myEnumNames.' + value | translate}} inside the repeated part. I can’t imagine all too many cases where the absence of this feature would be a big pain?

[Zemke]

I don’t see why this was closed. The array syntax to translate multiple keys is nothing like getting a whole translation object. I think the feature request is still valid, isn’t it?