How to use placeholder with intl.formatMessage

Question

I'm trying to use react-intl to add localization to my app. Like this

<FormattedHTMLMessage id="marker.title" values={{
        name: (b.name !== null ? b.name : "Bench"),
        seats: Tools.showValue(b.seats),
        material: Tools.showValue(b.material),
        color: Tools.getColorNameFromInt(b.color),
        lat: b.lat,
        lng: b.lng,
    }}/>

But I need a string so I tried this

const title = this.props.intl.formatMessage({
    id: "marker.title",
    values: {
        name: (b.name !== null ? b.name : "Bench"),
        seats: Tools.showValue(b.seats),
        material: Tools.showValue(b.material),
        color: Tools.getColorNameFromInt(b.color),
        lat: b.lat,
        lng: b.lng,
    }
});

and I get the following error message:

Error: The intl string context variable 'name' was not provided to the string '{name}<br/>Seats: {seats}<br/>Material: {material}<br/>Color: {color}<br/>Location: {lat} / {lng}'

en.json

{
  "marker.title": "{name}<br/>Seats: {seats}<br/>Material: {material}<br/>Color: {color}<br/>Location: {lat} / {lng}"
}

score 31 · Accepted Answer · answered May 11 '18 at 13:41

Figured it out if you do it like this it will work

this.props.intl.formatMessage({id: "marker.title"}, {
                name: (b.name !== null ? b.name : "Bench"),
                seats: Tools.showValue(b.seats, this.props.intl),
                material: Tools.showValue(b.material, this.props.intl),
                color: Tools.getColorNameFromInt(b.color, this.props.intl),
                lat: b.lat,
                lng: b.lng,
            });

Let's hope I find this answer again when I'm stuck at this thing again.

How to use placeholder with intl.formatMessage

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