Hi everyone - apologies, I'll try and make this as clear as I can. I have a Catalyst app that has internationalisation via CatalystX::I18N. This includes the ability to call $c->maketext($msgid, $params). Essentially, I want to be able to use these in my DB model so that I can generate response messages in the relevant language. The only way I have thought of to do this so far (don't shoot me, I know it's not recommended!) is by passing $c->maketext as part of the parameters into the method I'm calling: 
$c->model("DB::$resultset")->do_something({
  language => sub{ $c->maketext( @_ ); }
});

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What I would like is to be able to use a maketext model (which seems to be available via CatalystX::I18N::Model::Maketext) so that I can use App::Maketext in my result and resultset classes and then use ->maketext() directly in those, if that makes sense? I have set this up and can debug the following: 
  $c->log->debug( sprintf( "maketext: '%s'", $c->maketext("menu.title.
+news") ) );
$c->log->debug( sprintf( "model maketext: '%s'", $c->model("maketext")
+->maketext("menu.title.news") ) );

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Both of these give the same output from the function calls: 
[debug] maketext: 'News Index'
[debug] model maketext: 'News Index'

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However, I don't seem to be able to call this from outside Catalyst (which I need to be able to call it from the DB model) - I've run up a little test script and I was initially trying to load the config from my app's config file: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use FindBin qw( $Bin );
use lib "$Bin/../lib";
use App::Maketext;
use Config::ZOMG;

my $config = Config::ZOMG->new( name => 'App' );
my $config_hash = $config->load;
my $maketext_info = $config_hash->{"Model::Maketext"};

my $lang = TopTable::Maketext->new($maketext_info);
printf "%s\n", $lang->maketext( "menu.title.news" );

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However, I get the foillowing response: 
maketext doesn't know how to say:
menu.title.news
as needed at bin\maketext-demo.pl line 16.

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Then I thought I'd pass in the directories manually (at least for the time being): 
my $dir = Path::Class::Dir->new( "$Bin/..", "root", "locale" );
my $lang = TopTable::Maketext->new(directories => $dir);

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Finally I tried passing in the locale as well: 
my $dir = Path::Class::Dir->new( "$Bin/..", "root", "locale" );
my $lang = TopTable::Maketext->new(directories => $dir, locales => "en
+-GB");

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All of which give the same result. I am sure I'm missing something about the way it all hangs together and would be hugely greatful for any pointers that could be given! Many thanks in advance.

In reply to Catalyst: accessing maketext from a model by mkchris

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