google-object-translate
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A module that parse serializable javascript object to pseudo HTML to translate and parse it back.
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google-object-translate
A module that parse object to pseudo HTML to translate and parse it back.
The core concept of this module is that google can translate any html while keeping its structure. Therefore, we can parse the pseudo HTML to translate and parse it back.
Installation
npm install google-object-translateTo use google-object-translate/translate module, package @google-cloud/translate is also required:
npm install @google-cloud/translateUsage
Use build-in translate function
import {translate} from 'google-object-translate';
const client = translate.ObjectTranslate.createClient('v2', {
// your google-cloud config here
// See: https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/docs/reference/translate/latest/translate/v2.translateconfig
})
const objToTranslate = {
"title": "Hello World",
"viewerNumber": 1,
"content": "World",
"hybridList": [
"Hello",
null,
undefined,
"World"
]
}
const result = await client.translate(
objToTranslate,
// See: https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/docs/reference/translate/latest/translate/v2.translaterequest
{
from: 'en',
to: 'zh-CN',
})
// result = {
// "title": "你好世界",
// "viewerNumber": 1,
// "content": "世界",
// "hybridList": [
// "你好",
// null,
// undefined,
// "世界"
// ]
// }Use custom translate function
import {parser} from 'google-object-translate';parser.fromObject : Parse object to pseudo HTML
- Arguments:
| Name | Type | Required | Default | Comment |
| -------- | ------------------------------------------------- | -------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| obj | TranslationObject | true | - | The object to translate |
| filter | (path: string[], sentence: Sentence) => boolean | false | ()=>true | Filter function that decide a Sentence is translatable or not. True means it is translatable. |
Return Type:
string
parser.toObject : Parse pseudo HTML back to object
- Arguments:
| Name | Type | Required | Default | Comment |
| --------------- | ----------------- | -------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| pseudoHTML | string | true | - | - |
| _originalObject | TranslationObject | false | undefined | The original object that will be merged to translated object. |
- Return Type:
TranslationObject
Todo
- [ ] Support v3 and v3-beta API in
translate.ts
Types
| Type | Alias for | | ----------------- |-----------| | Sentence | string | object | undefined | | SentenceArray | Sentence[] | | TranslationObject | Sentence | SentenceArray |
Conversion Rules
Some values are skipped
Some values will not be included to pseudo HTML because it's meaningless. This includes:
- Number
- Boolean
- Empty String
- null
- undefined
But these values in an array will be replaced with undefined as placeholder.
string
before:
"some str"after:
some strArray
Untranslatable item will become empty tag to maintain the structure.
before:
["item 1", 123, true, "item 2"]after:
<body>
<ol>
<li>item 1</li>
<li></li>
<li></li>
<li>item 2</li>
</ol>
</body>Object
before:
{
"a": "",
"b": [
"item1",
2,
true
],
"c": null,
"d": {
"d1": "d1v",
"d2": "d2v"
}
}after:
<body>
<div>
<ol id="b">
<li>item1</li>
<li></li>
<li></li>
</ol>
<div id="d">
<p id="d1">d1v</p>
<p id="d2">d2v</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>