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Incompatible with multiple apps with different translations #107

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Flask-Babel stores an app instance in self.app, which will be set in init_app() regardless. This means that using the same Babel instance with multiple apps (each app running babel_instance.init_app(app) doesn't work as expected: Only the translations from the last app configured will be used.

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  1. davidism commented on Jul 27, 2016

    @davidism
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    For reference, Flask-SQLAlchemy implements a get_app method and uses that anywhere an app is required.

  2. timothyqiu commented on Oct 15, 2016

    @timothyqiu

    The same goes for localeselector and timezoneselector. They are bound to the Babel instance, so can't be configured separately for different apps 😢

    FYI, Flask-SQLAlchemy and Flask-Mail store app specific states in app.extensions['NAME'].

  3. guydavis commented on Jan 16, 2023

    @guydavis

    Hi, I am trying out version 3.0 that was just released and am hitting the deprecation in __init__.py of a Flask app of:

    @babel.localeselector
    def get_locale():
        ....
    

    What is the recomended approach to use instead of above, to be compatible with Flask-Babel v3.0? Thanks!

    EDIT: As best I can tell, before the upgrade with the old decorator, this get_locale method was getting called per-request. After the upgrade (dropping the decorator line), the method is no longer called and my app pages are no longer translated.

    EDIT2: Sorry, my mistake. I found the answer digging into the diffs made to the documentation above. Leaving the answer for any others who hit this on upgrade to v3.0.

    My old code:

    babel = Babel(app)
    
    @babel.localeselector
    def get_locale():
        ...
    

    Changed to work with Flask-Babel v3.0:

    def get_locale():
        ...
    
    
    babel = Babel(app, locale_selector=get_locale,)
    
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