Custom detector example about i18next-browser-languagedetector

[totymedli]

Solution

I found out you also have to add your custom detector's name into the detection.order array. This is somewhy not mentioned in the official readme. Without this, the detector will be never used.

Under the detector options section, there is an example object that can be set as the detection property in the object you pass to i18next.init(). You should add the name of your detector (customDetector) to the property called order in that options object.

i18next
  .use(LngDetector)
  .init({
    detection: {
      // order and from where user language should be detected
      order: ['customDetector', 'querystring', 'cookie', 'localStorage', 'navigator', 'htmlTag']
    }
  });

[totymedli]

Now this information is included in the readme.

[jamuhl]

you need to implement the detection function too: https://www.i18next.com/misc/creating-own-plugins.html#languagedetector

simpler would be using default detector and whitelist in options: https://www.i18next.com/configuration-options.html#languages-namespaces-resources

-> whitelist
-> nonExplicitWhitelist

[lopis]

Thanks, that's what I was looking for. Maybe the readme should have a more complete example of a custom detector? Mind if I suggest one later in pull request?