intl.get(messageKey) doesn't work in non-template code about ember-intl

[jasonmit]

That's using the Ember.get accessor. The intl-get handlebar helper is not the same as intl.get

Are you trying to access the a locale's message object directly?

It would be this: $E.intl._getLocaleInstance('en').get('messages.phone')

The service doesn't expose this in an of API that behaves like intl-get, which walks over all the "active" locale(s) and stops at the first one that has the key.

[terryroe]

I was trying to do a message lookup, thinking there was an analogous function to the intl-get helper. It seems like this is needed if you want to be able to retrieve locale message strings in code in order to be able to format them with formatMessage. Could a function like this be added? Is there more information I could provide?

[jasonmit]

For the sake of not blocking you until I publish another release, you can move these two functions to an Ember.Mixin and then you'll get the behavior you're looking for.

https://github.com/yahoo/ember-intl/blob/master/app/helpers/intl-get.js#L9-L33

[terryroe]

Thanks Jason. We're still in heavy development, so we can wait for the next published release. I used your suggested code from your first response as a temporary fix just to get things working. Thanks for being so responsive and helpful. It's much appreciated.

[jacojoubert]

This would be a great addition. I will move it to a mixin for now.

[jasonmit]

1.2.0 resolves this: https://github.com/yahoo/ember-intl/blob/master/app/services/intl.js#L192-L206

this.intl.getTranslation(key) just note that it returns a promise to handle potential future changes to lazily load translations by default.