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Fix locale and search language

Locale and search language was always defined with english value. This patch inits the locale on `pre_request` in order to define the default value of locale and language preferences. Plus the `best_match` function provided by flask babel library did not work as expected. So the function `match_language` provided by searx is used to detect that the language from Accepted-Language header can be used in searx project.

commit373a66be3046bbb7deca20f08468cb5dea44eaf9 authorNicolas Gelot <nicofonk@gmail.com> dateThu 28 Mar 2019, 18:07 (8 years ago) parenta818d32
3 files changed+25−8
searx/preferences.py+2−2 searx/settings.yml−1 searx/webapp.py+23−5
searx/preferences.py+2−2
@@ -243,8 +243,8 @@ class Preferences(object):
243243 super(Preferences, self).__init__()
244244
245245 self.key_value_settings = {'categories': MultipleChoiceSetting(['general'], choices=categories + ['none']),
246− 'language': SearchLanguageSetting(settings['search']['language'],
247− choices=LANGUAGE_CODES),
246+ 'language': SearchLanguageSetting(settings['ui']['default_locale'],
247+ choices=list(LANGUAGE_CODES) + ['']),
248248 'locale': EnumStringSetting(settings['ui']['default_locale'],
249249 choices=list(settings['locales'].keys()) + ['']),
250250 'autocomplete': EnumStringSetting(settings['search']['autocomplete'],
searx/settings.yml−1
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ general:
55search:
66 safe_search : 0 # Filter results. 0: None, 1: Moderate, 2: Strict
77 autocomplete : "" # Existing autocomplete backends: "dbpedia", "duckduckgo", "google", "startpage", "wikipedia" - leave blank to turn it off by default
8− language : "en-US"
98 ban_time_on_fail : 5 # ban time in seconds after engine errors
109 max_ban_time_on_fail : 120 # max ban time in seconds after engine errors
1110
searx/webapp.py+23−5
@@ -152,7 +152,14 @@ outgoing_proxies = settings['outgoing'].get('proxies') or None
152152
153153@babel.localeselector
154154def get_locale():
155− locale = request.accept_languages.best_match(settings['locales'].keys())
155+ locale = "en-US"
156+
157+ for lang in request.headers.get("Accept-Language", locale).split(","):
158+ locale = match_language(lang, settings['locales'].keys(), fallback=None)
159+ if locale is not None:
160+ break
161+
162+ logger.debug("default locale from browser info is `%s`", locale)
156163
157164 if request.preferences.get_value('locale') != '':
158165 locale = request.preferences.get_value('locale')
@@ -164,6 +171,8 @@ def get_locale():
164171 if locale == 'zh_TW':
165172 locale = 'zh_Hant_TW'
166173
174+ logger.debug("selected locale is `%s`", locale)
175+
167176 return locale
168177
169178
@@ -342,7 +351,9 @@ def render(template_name, override_theme=None, **kwargs):
342351 if 'autocomplete' not in kwargs:
343352 kwargs['autocomplete'] = request.preferences.get_value('autocomplete')
344353
345− if get_locale() in rtl_locales and 'rtl' not in kwargs:
354+ locale = request.preferences.get_value('locale')
355+
356+ if locale in rtl_locales and 'rtl' not in kwargs:
346357 kwargs['rtl'] = True
347358
348359 kwargs['searx_version'] = VERSION_STRING
@@ -355,7 +366,7 @@ def render(template_name, override_theme=None, **kwargs):
355366 if 'current_language' not in kwargs:
356367 kwargs['current_language'] = match_language(request.preferences.get_value('language'),
357368 LANGUAGE_CODES,
358− fallback=settings['search']['language'])
369+ fallback=locale)
359370
360371 # override url_for function in templates
361372 kwargs['url_for'] = url_for_theme
@@ -423,6 +434,13 @@ def pre_request():
423434 logger.exception('invalid settings')
424435 request.errors.append(gettext('Invalid settings'))
425436
437+ # init search language and locale
438+ locale = get_locale()
439+ if not preferences.get_value("language"):
440+ preferences.parse_dict({"language": locale})
441+ if not preferences.get_value("locale"):
442+ preferences.parse_dict({"locale": locale})
443+
426444 # request.user_plugins
427445 request.user_plugins = []
428446 allowed_plugins = preferences.plugins.get_enabled()
@@ -593,7 +611,7 @@ def index():
593611 unresponsive_engines=result_container.unresponsive_engines,
594612 current_language=match_language(search_query.lang,
595613 LANGUAGE_CODES,
596− fallback=settings['search']['language']),
614+ fallback=request.preferences.get_value("language")),
597615 base_url=get_base_url(),
598616 theme=get_current_theme_name(),
599617 favicons=global_favicons[themes.index(get_current_theme_name())]
@@ -702,7 +720,7 @@ def preferences():
702720
703721 return render('preferences.html',
704722 locales=settings['locales'],
705− current_locale=get_locale(),
723+ current_locale=request.preferences.get_value("locale"),
706724 image_proxy=image_proxy,
707725 engines_by_category=categories,
708726 stats=stats,