Does anyone know how to get a dictionary item in a controller?!

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that is amazing @skttl thank you - dunno why i didn’t think of using the umbraco helper (tbh i don’t use it a lot…) but it works a treat :wink:

just in case anyone else stumbles across this…

the helper works great in a controller but becomes tricker in an api controller…

the way we’ve solved it is to create a filter:

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Filters;
using System.Globalization;

namespace YourSite.Core.Filters
{
	public class SetCultureFromHeaderFilter : ActionFilterAttribute
	{
		public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext context)
		{
			var cultureHeader = context.HttpContext.Request.Headers["Accept-Language"].FirstOrDefault();

			if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(cultureHeader))
			{
				try
				{
					var culture = new CultureInfo(cultureHeader);
					Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = culture;
					Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = culture;
				}
				catch (CultureNotFoundException)
				{
					//we could set a default culture here if we wanted
				}
			}

			base.OnActionExecuting(context);
		}
	}
}

then that gets applied to all the api controllers:

namespace YourSite.Core.Controllers.Api
{
	[ApiController]
	[SetCultureFromHeaderFilter]
	public class YourApiController : Controller
	{
...

we set the language on the html tag:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="es">
<head>
...

and pass the header in the javascript that calls any of the endpoints:

const currentCulture = document.documentElement.lang;

const response = await fetch('/api/your-end-point', {
	method: 'POST',
	headers: {
		'Content-Type': 'application/json',
		'Accept-Language': currentCulture,
	}
	...
});

the api controller and any of the code it consumes now knows the correct culture. nice.