Customizing Weblate

Weblate can be extended or customized using standard Django and Python ways. Always please consider contributing changes upstream so that everybody can benefit from your additions. Including your changes in Weblate itself will also reduce your maintenance costs - code in Weblate is taken care of when changing internal interfaces or refactoring the code.

Предупреждение

Neither internal interfaces or templates are considered as stable API. Please review your customizations on every upgrade, the interface or their semantics might change without notice.

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Contributing

Creating Python module

If you are not familiar with Python, you might want to look into Python For Beginners which explains the basics and will point you to further tutorials.

We’re about to write custom Python code and we need place to store it - it’s called a module in Python. Late we need to place somewhere where the Python interpreter can import it - either in system path (usually something like /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/) or in Weblate directory, which is also added to the interpreter search path.

The best approach is to create a 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_customization 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_customization",
        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_customization'],
    )
    
  4. Now you can install it using pip install -e .

  5. Once installed into Python path, you can use it in Weblate configuration, in most cases as fully qualified path (for example weblate_customization.checks.FooCheck).

Overall your module structure should look like:

weblate_customization
├── setup.py
└── weblate_customization
    ├── __init__.py
    ├── addons.py
    └── checks.py

You can find example application for custimizing Weblate at <https://github.com/WeblateOrg/customize-example>, it covers all topics described below.

Custom quality checks and auto fixes

You have implemented code for Custom automatic fixups or Customizing behavior and now it’s time to install it into Weblate. First place them into your Python module with Weblate customization (see Creating Python module). Then enabled it is just matter of adding its fully-qualified path to Python class to appropriate settings (CHECK_LIST or AUTOFIX_LIST):

CHECK_LIST = (
    'weblate_customization.checks.FooCheck',
)

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Writing own checks

Custom addons

First place them into your Python module with Weblate customization (see Creating Python module). Then enabled it is just matter of adding its fully-qualified path to Python class to appropriate settings (WEBLATE_ADDONS):

WEBLATE_ADDONS = (
   'weblate_customization.addons.ExamplePreAddon',
)