i18n lookup function

[sbattou]

Hey!

I'm currently using your library and it has been working great so far.

I was going through some documentation and noticed that there is a i18n.lookup('translation_key') function that works but unfortunately it is not defined in the types/i18n-js index.d.ts.

Is there anyway you can add it or is there a better way to lookup whether a translation exists or not?

Thank you :)

[fnando]

Hey! Which version are you using?

[sbattou]

Sounds good! i18n.t("missing", {defaultValue: ""}) was actually my current work around so I will continue using it until the new version drops.

One of the use cases that I ran into recently is I have many objects and some require an additional accessibility label and some don't. So I need to check whether that object contains that key to add the accessibility label.

[sbattou]

Let me know if my use case makes sense or if I should go on about it differently :)

[fnando]

Ok, I think I'm gonna add I18n#get(scope), which will return whatever it finds as it is, taking fallback locales into consideration.

[fnando]

Or, better putting, making the existing I18n#get(scope) function public.

[sbattou]

I'm assuming this function wouldn't return the missing message when a key doesn't exist?