can the parameter keys of i_ function accept something like ALL (indicating that every element of the list should be translated)

[brazadas]

[jpmarindiaz]

That was the default behavior at some point. Try with keys = NULL, if that doesn't work, do you think keys = NULL is a good convention to keep that bahavior? Do you have a use case in mind?

[brazadas]

well, keys = NULL does nothing to the list; I think though, it would be a good convention. I do indeed have a use case.. that's how it came to my mind actually, so i will try to explain it shortly.

Now modules as tableInput have a variety of parameter for specifying every widget's label, placeholder, value, ... this parameters in an app have to be translated, so, when you call the module you could think of doing something like:

callModule(tableInput,
"initial_data",
sampleLabel = i_("sample_lb", lang()),
pasteLabel = i_("paste_lb", lang()))

but this does not reacts to lang(), nor if you put each inside a reactive; what makes the module reactive to lang() was to put it inside an observeEvent(labels(), {...}) where labels() is a list of the translated parameters that looks like:

list(sampleLabel = i_("sample_lb", lang()),
pasteLabel = i_("paste_lb", lang()),
pasteValue = "",
pastePlaceholder = i_("paste_pl", lang()), ...)

so here i would want to simply do i_(list(sampleLabel = "sample_lb", pasteLabel = "paste_lb", ...), lang())

[brazadas]

an off course i think it would be useful in general

[jpmarindiaz]

callModule(tableInput, "initial_data", sampleLabel = i_("sample_lb", lang()), 
                                       pasteLabel = i_("paste_lb", lang()))

For the module to work with reactives make sure you check if the parameter is a reactive, and if so extract it like we did here. https://github.com/datasketch/hotr/blob/8ba178507689aa39a6879212dfc043cfb5992d67/R/hotr.R#L47-L48

No need to put everything into the list to solve your specific use case.
Make sure all module parameters that are labels check this, as they will all be used in translations at some point.

Still it would be good to translate whole lists. It shouldn't be hard, it is only a matter of setting default parameter for keys = NULL. Not urgent now.

[brazadas]

well yes, i didn't wanted to modify all modules again but seems it is what it has to be done.
i will do it then