Customization of the List of Countries in the Field Type Country of Registration Forms

David_del_Moral · January 21, 2019, 9:17pm

Hi,
How I could customize the list of countries provided by the field type country in registration forms to reflect the official list of countries of the UN???.
Thanks for your replies,
DdM

kolodzie · January 22, 2019, 6:08am

Hey, so basically you could provide a CUSTOM_COUNTRIES option in your Indico config which should extend the basic list of countries we utilize. So, for example in indico.conf

CUSTOM_COUNTRIES = {'KP': 'North Korea'}

David_del_Moral · January 22, 2019, 12:53pm

Excellent! Thank you for the advice!.

What about the translations?, in this case we need to have these in English and Spanish.

Regards,

DdM

ThiefMaster · January 22, 2019, 12:58pm

as with all custom texts at the moment that’s currently not possible. as possible workaround is putting both versions in the same string, e.g. “english here / espanol here” - but of course that doesn’t look super amazing…

David_del_Moral · January 22, 2019, 1:00pm

That would be enough for us!. Thank you very much!

David_del_Moral · January 22, 2019, 8:17pm

Hi,
After placing the list of CUSTOM_COUNTRIES, I’m noticing that it doesn’t remove undesirable items in the list of countries.
Would there be a way to remove them from the list shown by the country field type?
Thanks in advance for your reply

ThiefMaster · January 22, 2019, 8:19pm

Nope, that’s not possible. I’m curious, what’s your use case for that?

David_del_Moral · January 22, 2019, 8:22pm

It’s because diplomatic reasons, our organization only recognizes UN associated countries.
Thanks for your reply.

ThiefMaster · January 22, 2019, 8:25pm

OK, interesting use case. Being able to remove countries by setting them to None in the config would be pretty easy to add. If you have a developer who’s willing to send a Pull Request for it I think it’d have good chances to get merged.

This is the relevant file that needs to be changed:

github.com

indico/indico/blob/master/indico/util/countries.py#L26-L41


@memoize
def get_countries():
_countries = {country.alpha_2: getattr(country, 'common_name', country.name) for country in pycountry.countries}
_countries.update(config.CUSTOM_COUNTRIES)
return ImmutableDict(_countries)




@memoize
def get_country(code):
try:
    return get_countries()[code]
except KeyError:
    try:
        return pycountry.historic_countries.get(alpha_2=code).name
    except KeyError:
        return None

David_del_Moral · January 22, 2019, 8:31pm

Thank you again!. I’ll give it a try!.

bpedersen2 · January 24, 2019, 6:37am

Another route worth a try is regnerating pycountry against an up-to-date (and correct) debian pkg-isocode.
See https://salsa.debian.org/iso-codes-team/iso-codes and https://bitbucket.org/flyingcircus/pycountry/src for the respective sources.

Björn

David_del_Moral · January 24, 2019, 7:14pm

Thank you Björn, definitely that is also an option!