django-oscar categories and products translations

Question

I want to use django-oscar for building an web shop and this shop will provide two main languages.

Oscar's translations do very well with regular fields like View chart or Add to chart, but does not support custom elements e.g. Categories or Product's Titles.

I want have translated:

• Category
• Product.Title
• Product.Description

I've figured out two approaches:

Approach one - modify django-oscar templates

I can create custom set of tranlsations according to oscar's translation doc.

And then fill proper django.po file with translated categories and product's titles.

Unfortunately I will have to overwrite some templates, because they don't use trans templatetag by default. E.g. I would change.

<a href="{{ category.get_absolute_url }}">{{ category.name }}</a>

to

<a href="{{ category.get_absolute_url }}">{% trans category.name %}</a>

In this oscar's template.

Main problem with this approach is need for overwriting templates, updating django.po as well as compiling it with every new entry to translate.

Approach two - use django-modeltranslation

Using this plugin.

Question

Does I miss some build in django-oscar's feature, or I have to use one of above approaches?

Answer 1

Using django-modeltranslation was a good idea.

Even updating dashboard according to customization instructions from oscar's docs and ModelForm description from modeltranslation's docs done the job well.