set language within a django view

Question

background: The view is called when a payment service pings back a payment outcome behind the scenes - afterwhich I need to send an email in the right langu

Answer 1

Be sure to also add deactivate in process_response, otherwise you will have problems with different threads.

from django.utils import translation

class LocaleMiddleware(object):
    """
    This is a very simple middleware that parses a request
    and decides what translation object to install in the current
    thread context. This allows pages to be dynamically
    translated to the language the user desires (if the language
    is available, of course).
    """

    def process_request(self, request):
        language = translation.get_language_from_request(request)
        translation.activate(language)
        request.LANGUAGE_CODE = translation.get_language()

    def process_response(self, request, response):
        translation.deactivate()
        return response