Are there are any libraries that support user content localization in aspnetcore? - entity-framework

Question

The are plenty of resources describing G11n an L10n in aspnetcore including the official docs.
But are there any libraries that simplify the implementation of a user content localization? An example could be a content of a blog post that may be translated into multiple languages. Such a library would use a specific table in SQL for storing/retrieving translation.
Here is the possible use case:
// this object contains content that user can add manually
public class BlogPost
{
// should be localised
public string Content { get; private set; }
}
It seems like we can add a collection of "string Content" in order to solve this issue:
public class LocalizableContent
{
public string CultureInfo { get; private set; }
public string Content { get; private set; }
}
public class BlogPost
{
public ICollection<LocalizableContent> Content { get; private set; }
}
Note: after making a bit of googling I found a related question (but it gives no answers):
Best Practices to localize entities with EF Code first | StackOverflow
Also, it doesn't seem like this library can help:
github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreLocalization
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I think you can implement your content localization library without the need to use third parties. Personaly I do something like below:
public class BlogPost {
public int Id { get; set; }
public ICollection<BloPostLocalized> Localizations { get; set; }
}
Create a localized class for BlogPost:
public class BlogPostLocalized {
public int Id { get; set; }
public BlogPostId { get; set; }
public BlogPost { get; set; }
public string Culture { get; set; }
public string Title { get; set; }
public string Content { get; set; }
}
Notice that the main BloPost has no Title nor Content fields, because we will have them defined in the BlogPostLocalized class for neutral and localized cultures.
So each blog post will have multiple localized versions that can be fetched simply from the db as a child of the main post.