What i want to do is, to detect the language of a users browser and redirect him to a page containing the locale in url.
I thought, the easiest way would be, to register a kernel listener. So that is what i did:
services:
kernel__request_listener:
class: Me\MainBundle\Listener\KernelRequestListener
tags:
- { name: kernel.event_listener, event: kernel.request, method: onKernelRequest }
calls:
- [ setContainer, [ @service_container ] ]
KernelRequestListener.php
...
/**
* @Service
*/
class KernelRequestListener
{
/**
* @Observe("kernel.request")
*/
public function onKernelRequest( GetResponseEvent $response )
{
if( $newLocale = $this->newLocale() )
{
$parmArray = $request->get('_route_params');
$parmArray['_locale'] = $newLocale;
$redirectResponse = new RedirectResponse( $this->getContainer()->get('router')->generate($request->get('_route'), $parmArray) );
$redirectResponse->headers->setCookie( new Cookie('b_locale', $newLocale, time() + 2592000) );
$response->setResponse( $redirectResponse );
}
}
...
}
The method $this->newLocale() just detects if the user should be redirected to another language and returns the new language code (i.e. DE or FR).
Here comes the problem: I am using assetics to compress the js files and jms/i18n-routing-bundle to do the locale-based routing. When the kernel listener switches locale, the page starts loading the js files over and over again. also, there are several pages (i.e. the profiler, login/logout etc.) where no redirect should take place as it makes no sense or breaks smthing.
Is a kernel listener the right place to do such a redirection or is there any better place. How to resolve the problems above?