[1.12.2] Sending Localized Messages to a Player

[Codasylph]

In my mod there are a number of times when a message is sent to the player's chat to say something like "Good job you did this thing, now you can do this other thing!" or "That didn't quite work, you should make sure all the blocks are in the right place." I want this messages to able to be changed via the mod's lang files so that someone playing the game in spanish gets a message in spanish, english gets english, etc. Currently I do this by calling something like this on the server side: 

player.sendMessage(new TextComponentString(DemConstants.ALTAR_CREATED));

and the variable ALTAR_CREATED is defined like this:

public static final String ALTAR_CREATED = I18n.format("text.altar_created.message");

and the string "text.altar_created.message" is in my .lang file as whatever I actually want it to be.  I currently only have a US English version, but I'm trying to plan ahead.

 

This all works just dandy in single player mode, but when I attempt to run it on a dedicated server I get a NoClassDef error because I18n is client side only.  To my knowledge EntityPlayer#SendMessage is *supposed* to be called on the server side.

 

So, clearly what I'm doing is wrong. What should I be doing?

Edited September 3, 2018 by Codasylph

[Draco18s]

Send the unlocalized text to the client and make the client translate it. That's the only way.

[Codasylph]

26 minutes ago, Draco18s said:

Send the unlocalized text to the client and make the client translate it. That's the only way.

But.. but how? ?

 

So, for anyone who stumbles across this thread in the future, I actually figured out how shortly after I made this post, proving that if i'd spent a few more minutes with google I would never have needed to post at all. If you use TextComponentTransation instead of TextComponentString it does the translating on the correct side. example:

player.sendMessage(new TextComponentTranslation("text.altar_created.message"));

 

No I18n or anything

Edited September 3, 2018 by Codasylph

[Cadiboo]

18 hours ago, Draco18s said:

Send the unlocalized text to the client and make the client translate it. That's the only way.

 

17 hours ago, Codasylph said:

If you use TextComponentTransation instead of TextComponentString it does the translating on the correct side. example:

player.sendMessage(new TextComponentTranslation("text.altar_created.message"));

 

No I18n or anything

This looks like your sending a message translated on the server (ie in the server’s language) to the client where it will appear in the sever’s language. Don’t do this, lang files exists for a reason

Edited September 4, 2018 by Cadiboo

[V0idWa1k3r]

13 minutes ago, Cadiboo said:

translated on the server (ie in the server’s language)

The server has no concept of translation(or language at all for that matter). What OP did is the correct way. It send the lang key to the client and the client then translates it with the language the client has selected.

[Cadiboo]

1 minute ago, V0idWa1k3r said:

The server has no concept of translation(or language at all for that matter). What OP did is the correct way. It send the lang key to the client and the client then translates it with the language the client has selected.

Really sorry, I read “new ITextComponentTranslation()” as “localise()”