# Rocket Lang
### [This is still unstable, don't use still]
Rocket-lang provides a configurable enum type for multi-language rocket applications.
# LangCode
A request guard corresponding to the [ISO 639-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1) code standard.
Usage example:
```rust
#[get("/some-path/")]
fn some_path(lang: LangCode) -> Template {
// we can now choose which template to display
// based of the user's language preference
let path = format!("home/{}", LangCode);
Template::render(path, json!({}))
}
```
# Config
The behavior of the enum can be configured with the `Config` structure, which can be attached to a rocket instance.
When this is not used, its default behavior is to retrieve the language code from the `Accept-Language` header.
## accept_language
If the preferred method for language resolution is the http accept-language header, the qualities for each language can be set like this:
```rust
let config = Config::new();
let config[Es] = 1.0;
let config[En] = 0.5;
```
## url
The guard can also be configured to extract the language code from a fixed position in the path:
```rust
/// takes the language code from the last path segment:
let config = Config::new().url(-1);
```
This way the language code can be retrieved from a positional url segment.
```rust
#[get("see-lang/<_>")]
fn see_lang(lang: LangCode) -> &'static str {
lang.as_str()
}
```
## custom
If none of the previous approaches suit your needs, you may also use a closure to create a language code from a request:
```rust
Ok(lang)
});
```
# Composable
Other request guards can consume the structure in their API. Most notably, it can be used by foreign structures to return error messages in multiple languages.
```rust
// here the error message displayed by
// `Error` will automatically suit the callers configuration.
#[get("custom-error-message/")]
fn custom_error_message(user: User) -> Error {
Error::Unauthorized
}
// A possible implementation of `Error`
impl<'r, 'o: 'r> Responder<'r, 'o> for Error {
fn respond_to(self, request: &'r Request<'_>) -> rocket::response::Result<'o> {
let lang: LangCode = request
.try_into()
.map_err(|x: Error| x.status())?;
let msg = match lang {
LangCode::En => "Unauthorized",
LangCode::Es => "No autorizado",
...
};
msg.respond_to(request)
}
}
```