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When we’re working on a multi language application, we need to be aware of the user’s language ensure they receive content in their own language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mendix has great language support, and it also has great caching on the client side. These can cause problems together when you change the language of a user in your application, it may not always be reflected back to local cache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a way around this, we can use the Mendix Client API<\/a> to force a retrieve of the data from the application. We need to use an XPath request to ensure we bypass the cache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

let xPath = \"\/\/System.Language[System.User_Language=\\\"\" + mx.session.getUserId() + \"\\\"]\";<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
We have the current user’s session ID, so we can retrieve the System.Language using this a constraint on the System.User_Language association. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now we can just use an mx.data.get call to retrieve it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
mx.data.get({\n    xpath: xPath,\n    filter: {\n        amount: 1\n    }, \n    callback: function(obj) { \n        let lang = obj[0].jsonData.attributes.Code.value;\n        console.log(\"Current language is \" + lang);\n    }\n});<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
In this example, we are just echoing the language code back to the user on the console.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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