Language change does not work if this package is used

[derwaldgeist]

I was glad that this package was there, since I would like to support my Cordova app with offline language files. Setup was easy, and the i18n files are generated as expected. They are located in the /public/i18n folder, and they contain the right keys.

However, my application always shows up in English. Switching the language using TAPi18n.setLanguage() does not seem to work anymore. I can see in the browser's networking console that the language files are retrieved from the server, but then nothing happens.

The fail() callback says:

Couldn't load language 'de' JSON: parsererror

I ran a JSON linter on it, and it reported the JSON as being clean.

The language dropdown provided by tap:i18n also does not have any effect.

What may cause this?

I kept the project-tap.i18n file lean, it just contains the cdn_path required for this package.

{
  "cdn_path" : "i18n"
}

[derwaldgeist]

I found out what the problem was. In the project-tap.i18n file, it should read:

{
  "cdn_path" : "/i18n"
}

The package always tried to get the language files relative to the current URL. I recommend to update the docs.

[JesperWe]

I would maybe suggest to improve the error message when there are issues in the project-tap.i18n file.
I came across this today too, and just having .setLanguage() silently fail is not very helpful.

[IstoraMandiri]

Thanks for the suggestion @JesperWe; this is a http://github.com/tapevents/tap-i18n (main repo) issue. Would certainly be useful to have better error messages.

Can you confirm whether or not it's working now? If so, I'll close the issue.

[JesperWe]

Sure, it works if you get the cdn_path settings right. But if you don't it just silently fails without any message.