No way to access country data to localize country names

[wchristian]

I'm working on a website that uses the javascript included in https://metacpan.org/module/Locale::Simple to localize various strings with data from our PO files. I'd like to localize the country names of intl-tel-input as well, but you've done an extremely good job of making that inaccessible it seems. Can you advise on a way to do this, or maybe implement some public interface towards the country data, so i can do this without forking the JS?

[jackocnr]

Hmm interesting. I was thinking it would be good to add localised country names in brackets anyway (like the gmail signup form). Would this solve your problem?

Otherwise, I could probably provide getters and setters for the country data without too much trouble, but I likely wont have time to work on this until next week.

Obviously I'm open to pull requests :)

[jackocnr]

I have now added the localised country names. Check it out and let me know if it solves your issue.

[jackocnr]

I have now also added a getter and setter for the country data, so it's all yours.

[wchristian]

Sorry for the late reply, i wasn't in the office for the past days.

Either way, thanks a bunch for the work! I wouldn't have minded doing it too, but you saved me a bit of time. There's only one thing that you might or might not regard as an issue:

Since the country data is only being read when initializing a dropdown, i need to change it before initializing any dropdowns, but there's no way to access the country data without having an initialized dropdown, so i need to do this:

            var dropdown_data = $("<input />").intlTelInput().intlTelInput("getCountryData");
            dropdown_data.countries.forEach(function(obj){
                ...

It works, but isn't necessarily the best API. :)
Maybe being able to pass in a function on initialization to munge the country data would be something agreeable with you? (I'd also make the patch.)

[jackocnr]

It seems we need a static getter and setter. Could you try the solution posted here and see if that works? http:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9364129/how-do-i-create-a-static-method-for-a-jquery-plugin

[wchristian]

Sure, i'll let you know tomorrow how it works out. :)

[jackocnr]

Ok I just implemented the static getter and setter. Here is an example of how you could use it to modify the country data before you instantiate the plugin:

var countryData = $.fn.intlTelInput.getCountryData();
countryData.countries[0].name = "TEST";
$.fn.intlTelInput.setCountryData(countryData);

Does that solve your problem?