Checks and fixups

Custom automatic fixups

You can also implement own automatic fixup in addition to standard ones and include them in AUTOFIX_LIST.

The automatic fixes are powerful, but can also cause damage, be careful when writing one.

For example following automatic fixup would replace every occurrence of string foo in translation with bar:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# Copyright © 2012 - 2017 Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com>
#
# This file is part of Weblate <https://weblate.org/>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#

from weblate.trans.autofixes.base import AutoFix
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _


class ReplaceFooWithBar(AutoFix):
    """Replace foo with bar."""

    name = _('Foobar')

    def fix_single_target(self, target, source, unit):
        if 'foo' in target:
            return target.replace('foo', 'bar'), True
        return target, False

To install custom checks, you need to provide fully-qualified path to Python class in the AUTOFIX_LIST, see Using custom modules and classes.

Customizing checks

Fine tuning existing checks

You can fine tune checks for each source string (in source strings review, see Additional information on source strings) or in the Component configuration (Quality checks flags), here is current list of flags accepted:

skip-review-flag
Ignore whether unit is marked for review when importing from VCS. This can be useful for XLIFF.
add-source-review
Whether to mark all new string in source language for review. This can be useful if you want to proofread the source language. This flag has no meaning for bilingual translations.
add-review
Whether to mark all new string for review. This can be useful if you want to proofread the translations done by developers.
rst-text
Treat text as RST document, affects Unchanged translation.
max-length:N
Limit maximal length for string to N chars, see Maximum Length
xml-text
Treat text as XML document, affects Invalid XML markup and XML tags mismatch.
python-format, c-format, php-format, python-brace-format, javascript-format
Treats all string like format strings, affects Format strings, Format strings, Format strings, Format strings, Format strings, Unchanged translation.
ignore-end-space
Skip the «Trailing space» quality check.
ignore-inconsistent
Skip the «Inconsistent» quality check.
ignore-translated
Skip the «Has been translated» quality check.
ignore-begin-newline
Skip the «Starting newline» quality check.
ignore-zero-width-space
Skip the «Zero-width space» quality check.
ignore-escaped-newline
Skip the «Mismatched n» quality check.
ignore-same
Skip the «Unchanged translation» quality check.
ignore-end-question
Skip the «Trailing question» quality check.
ignore-end-ellipsis
Skip the «Trailing ellipsis» quality check.
ignore-ellipsis
Skip the «Ellipsis» quality check.
ignore-python-brace-format
Skip the «Python brace format» quality check.
ignore-end-newline
Skip the «Trailing newline» quality check.
ignore-c-format
Skip the «C format» quality check.
ignore-javascript-format
Skip the «Javascript format» quality check.
ignore-optional-plural
Skip the «Optional plural» quality check.
ignore-end-exclamation
Skip the «Trailing exclamation» quality check.
ignore-end-colon
Skip the «Trailing colon» quality check.
ignore-xml-invalid
Skip the «Invalid XML markup» quality check.
ignore-xml-tags
Skip the «XML tags mismatch» quality check.
ignore-python-format
Skip the «Python format» quality check.
ignore-plurals
Skip the «Missing plurals» quality check.
ignore-begin-space
Skip the «Starting spaces» quality check.
ignore-bbcode
Skip the «Mismatched BBcode» quality check.
ignore-multiple-failures
Skip the «Multiple failing checks» quality check.
ignore-php-format
Skip the «PHP format» quality check.
ignore-end-stop
Skip the «Trailing stop» quality check.
ignore-angularjs-format
Skip the «AngularJS interpolation string» quality check.

Примечание

Generally the rule is named ignore-* for any check, using its identifier, so you can use this even for your custom checks.

These flags are understood both in Component configuration settings, per source string settings and in translation file itself (eg. in GNU Gettext).

Writing own checks

Weblate comes with wide range of quality checks (see Quality checks), though they might not 100% cover all you want to check. The list of performed checks can be adjusted using CHECK_LIST and you can also add custom checks. All you need to do is to subclass weblate.trans.checks.Check, set few attributes and implement either check or check_single methods (first one if you want to deal with plurals in your code, the latter one does this for you). You will find below some examples.

To install custom checks, you need to provide fully-qualified path to Python class in the CHECK_LIST, see Using custom modules and classes.

Checking translation text does not contain «foo»

This is pretty simple check which just checks whether translation does not contain string «foo».

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# Copyright © 2012 - 2017 Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com>
#
# This file is part of Weblate <https://weblate.org/>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
"""Simple quality check example."""

from weblate.trans.checks.base import TargetCheck
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _


class FooCheck(TargetCheck):

    # Used as identifier for check, should be unique
    # Has to be shorter than 50 chars
    check_id = 'foo'

    # Short name used to display failing check
    name = _('Foo check')

    # Description for failing check
    description = _('Your translation is foo')

    # Real check code
    def check_single(self, source, target, unit):
        return 'foo' in target

Checking Czech translation text plurals differ

Check using language information to verify that two plural forms in Czech language are not same.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# Copyright © 2012 - 2017 Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com>
#
# This file is part of Weblate <https://weblate.org/>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
"""Quality check example for Czech plurals."""

from weblate.trans.checks.base import TargetCheck
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _


class PluralCzechCheck(TargetCheck):

    # Used as identifier for check, should be unique
    # Has to be shorter than 50 chars
    check_id = 'foo'

    # Short name used to display failing check
    name = _('Foo check')

    # Description for failing check
    description = _('Your translation is foo')

    # Real check code
    def check_target_unit(self, sources, targets, unit):
        if self.is_language(unit, ('cs', )):
            return targets[1] == targets[2]
        return False

    def check_single(self, source, target, unit):
        """We don't check target strings here."""
        return False

Using custom modules and classes

You have implemented code for Custom automatic fixups or Customizing checks and now it’s time to install it into Weblate. That can be achieved by adding its fully-qualified path to Python class to appropriate settings.

This means that the module with class needs to be placed somewhere where Python interpreter can import it - either in system path (usually something like /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/) or in Weblate directory, which is also added to the interpreter search path.

Assuming you’ve created mahongo.py containing your custom quality check. You can place it among Weblate checks in weblate/trans/checks/ folder and then add it as following:

CHECK_LIST = (
    'weblate.trans.checks.mahongo.MahongoCheck',
)

As you can see, it’s comma separated path to your module and class name.

Alternatively, you can create proper Python package out of your customization:

  1. Place your Python module with check into folder which will match your package name. We’re using weblate_custom_checks in following examples.

  2. Add empty __init__.py file to the same directory. This ensures Python can import this whole package.

  3. Write setup.py in parent directory to describe your package:

    from setuptools import setup
    
    setup(
        name = "weblate_custom_checks",
        version = "0.0.1",
        author = "Michal Cihar",
        author_email = "michal@cihar.com",
        description = "Sample Custom check for Weblate.",
        license = "BSD",
        keywords = "weblate check example",
        packages=['weblate_custom_checks'],
    )
    
  4. Now you can install it using python setup.py install

  5. Once installed into system Python path, you can use it from there:

    CHECK_LIST = (
        'weblate_custom_checks.mahongo.MahongoCheck',
    )
    

Overall your module structure should look like:

weblate_custom_checks
├── setup.py
└── weblate_custom_checks
    ├── __init__.py
    └── mahongo.py