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[Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is currently not supported by OpenStack. We have localization support
but it is host-configured and it doesn't vary based on an accept-header.
This seems like a very useful feature to get in for the next release, however.

Vish

On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:36 AM, boden <boden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> All,
> 
> Although I'm still ramping up on OpenStack in general, it appears (via
> visual code inspection and reading https://gist.github.com/2969337#id18)
> there is no support from a REST API perspective to return translated
> data to REST consumers by honoring the 'Accept-Language' in the request
> header -- true?
> 
> As a non-horizon REST API consumer, I would expect (I do expect a lot,
> just ask my wife :) my Accept-Language to be honored as best as possible
> for localized data returned by the software system.
> 
> For example a software system (OpenStack) error which returns an error
> message (response) "You can't pass in this junk" -- I would expect to be
> translated into the locale specified by my Accept-Language header when
> possible.
> 
> I do realize that not all response data is applicable to this construct.
> For example data returned by alien calls (for example - to the
> hypervisor) is out of the software's control (unless you can cascade the
> locale down on the alien call) and hence is at the mercy of the alien
> system.
> 
> Are there any plans (quick google didn't turn up anything useful) to add
> support for honoring the Accept-Language??
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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