HOCON (Human-Optimized Config Object Notation) and Typesafe Config are the standard way to configure Play applications. But, for Internationalization, Play uses Java Properties which don't have a syntax to structure an tree of keys used to i18n.

This plugin offers that by using HOCON as the language for I18n too, so your messages files will be like:

 pages {
    signup {
        title = "The Signup page"
        form {
            title = "The signup form"
            name = "Type your name"
            email = "Type your email"
            password = "Type your password"
            submit = "Signup now"
        }
    }
 }

This is not meant to be used as a drop-in replacement to default built-in module since Java Properties syntax is not compatible with HOCON.

Just follow the steps below:

Add the dependency to your build.sbt file:

libraryDependencies += "com.github.marcospereira" %% "play-hocon-i18n" % "1.0.1"

Add the following line to your conf/application.conf file:

play.modules.disabled += play.api.i18n.I18nModule

Add the following line to your conf/application.conf file:

play.modules.enabled += com.marcospereira.play.i18n.HoconI18nModule

As stated before, HOCON syntax and Java Properties are not fully compatible. The good part is that HOCON loader gives clear messages about invalid syntax and you can easily fix the errors. Of course, all HOCON features are enable here. Finally, you have to rename your messages files to have a .conf extension, per instance:

Copyright 2016 Marcos Pereira

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