moz.l10n 0.7.4

Mozilla tools for localization

moz.l10n

This is a library of Python tools and utilities for working with localization files, primarily built for internal use at Mozilla.

The core idea here is to establish Message and Resource as format-independent representations of localizable and localized messages and resources, so that operations like linting and transforms can be applied to them.

The Message and Resource representations are drawn from work done for the Unicode MessageFormat 2 specification and the Message resource specification.

The library currently supports the following resource formats:

• android†: Android string resources (strings.xml)
• dtd: .dtd
• fluent: Fluent (.ftl)
• inc: .inc
• ini: .ini
• plain_json: Plain JSON (.json)
• po: Gettext (.po, .pot)
• properties: .properties
• webext: WebExtensions (messages.json)
• xliff†: XLIFF 1.2, including XCode customizations (.xlf, .xliff)

† Support for XML formats (android, xliff) is an optional extra; to support them, install as moz.l10n[xml].

Command-line Tools

For usage details, use each command's --help argument.

l10n-build

Build localization files for release.

Iterates source files as defined by --config, reads localization sources from --base, and writes to --target. Trims out all comments and messages not in the source files for each of the --locales. Adds empty files for any missing from the target locale.

l10n-build-file

Build one localization file for release.

Uses the --source file as a baseline, applying --l10n localizations (if set) to build --target. Trims out all comments and messages not in the source file.

l10n-compare

Compare localizations to their source, which may be

• a directory (using L10nDiscoverPaths),
• a TOML config file (using L10nConfigPaths), or
• a JSON file containing a mapping of file paths to arrays of messages.

l10n-fix

Fix the formatting for localization resources.

If paths is a single directory, it is iterated with L10nConfigPaths if --config is set, or L10nDiscoverPaths otherwise. If paths is not a single directory, its values are treated as glob expressions, with ** support.

Python API

moz.l10n.formats.FORMAT

Parsers and serializers are provided for a number of formats, using common and well-established libraries to take care of the details. A unified API for these is provided, such that FORMAT_parse(text) will always accept str input, and FORMAT_serialize(resource) will always provide a str iterator. All the serializers accept a trim_comments argument which leaves out comments from the serialized result, but additional input types and options vary by format.

moz.l10n.formats.mf2

from moz.l10n.formats.mf2 import (
    MF2ParseError,          # May be raised by mf2_parse_message()
    MF2ValidationError,     # May be raised by mf2_from_json() and mf2_validate_message()
    mf2_parse_message,      # Parse MF2 message syntax into a Message
    mf2_serialize_message,  # Serialize a Message using MF2 syntax
    mf2_from_json,          # Marshal a MF2 data model JSON Schema object into a Message
    mf2_to_json,            # Represent a Message using the MF2 data model JSON Schema
    mf2_validate_message    # Validate that a Message meets all of the MF2 validity constraints
)

Tools for working with MessageFormat 2.0 messages, which may be embedded in resource formats.

moz.l10n.formats.detect_format

from moz.l10n.formats import detect_format

def detect_format(name: str | None, source: bytes | str) -> Format | None

Detect the format of the input based on its file extension and/or contents.

Returns a Format enum value, or None if the input is not recognized.

moz.l10n.message: from_json() and to_json()

from moz.l10n.message import from_json, to_json

def message_from_json(json: list[Any] | dict[str, Any]) -> Message

def message_to_json(msg: Message) -> list[Any] | dict[str, Any]

Converters to and from a JSON-serializable representation of a Message. The format of the output is defined by the schema.json JSON Schema.

moz.l10n.message.parse_message

from moz.l10n.message import parse_message

def parse_message(
    format: Format,
    source: str,
    *,
    printf_placeholders: bool = False,
    webext_placeholders: dict[str, dict[str, str]] | None = None,
    xliff_is_xcode: bool = False,
) -> Message

Parse a Message from its string representation.

Custom parsers are used for android, mf2, webext, and xliff formats. Other formats may include printf specifiers if printf_placeholders is enabled.

Parsing a webext message that contains named placeholders requires providing the message's webext_placeholders dict.

To parse an xliff message with XCode customizations, enable xliff_is_xcode.

Parsing fluent messages is not supported, as their parsing may result in multiple Entry values.

moz.l10n.message.serialize_message

from moz.l10n.message import serialize_message

def serialize_message(format: Format, msg: Message) -> str

Serialize a Message to its string representation.

Custom serialisers are used for android, mf2, webext, and xliff formats. Many formats rely on non-string message parts including an appropriate source attribute.

SelectMessage serialization is only supported for mf2.

Serializing fluent messages is not supported.

moz.l10n.model

from moz.l10n.model import (
    # Resource dataclasses
    Resource,
    Section,
    Entry,
    Comment,
    Metadata,
    LinePos,  # The source line position of an entry or section header.

    # Message dataclasses
    Message,  # type alias for PatternMessage | SelectMessage
    PatternMessage,
    SelectMessage,
    CatchallKey,
    Pattern,  # type alias for list[str | Expression | Markup]
    Expression,
    Markup,
    VariableRef
)

Dataclasses defining the library's representation of a messages and resources, with messages either as a single-pattern PatternMessage, or as a SelectMessage with one or more selectors and multiple variant patterns.

moz.l10n.paths.L10nConfigPaths

Wrapper for localization config files.

Supports a subset of the format specified at: https://moz-l10n-config.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fileformat.html

Differences:

• [build] is ignored
• [[excludes]] are not supported
• [[filters]] are ignored
• [[paths]] must always include both reference and l10n

Does not consider .l10n-ignore files.

moz.l10n.paths.L10nDiscoverPaths

Automagical localization resource discovery.

Given a root directory, finds the likeliest reference and target directories.

The reference directory has a name like templates, en-US, or en, and contains files with extensions that appear localizable.

The localization target root is a directory with subdirectories named as BCP 47 locale identifiers, i.e. like aa, aa-AA, aa-Aaaa, or aa-Aaaa-AA.

An underscore may also be used as a separator, as in en_US.

moz.l10n.resource.add_entries

from moz.l10n.resource import add_entries

def add_entries(
    target: Resource,
    source: Resource,
    *,
    use_source_entries: bool = False
) -> int

Modifies target by adding entries from source that are not already present in target. Standalone comments are not added.

If use_source_entries is set, entries from source override those in target when they differ, as well as updating section comments and metadata from source.

Entries are not copied, so further changes will be reflected in both resources.

Returns a count of added or changed entries and sections.

moz.l10n.resource.l10n_equal

from moz.l10n.resource import l10n_equal

def l10n_equal(a: Resource, b: Resource) -> bool

Compares the localization-relevant content (id, comment, metadata, message values) of two resources.

Sections with no message entries are ignored, and the order of sections, entries, and metadata is ignored.

moz.l10n.resource.parse_resource

from moz.l10n.resource import parse_resource

def parse_resource(
    input: Format | str | None,
    source: str | bytes | None = None
) -> Resource[Message, str]

Parse a Resource from its string representation.

The first argument may be an explicit Format, the file path as a string, or None. For the latter two types, an attempt is made to detect the appropriate format.

If the first argument is a string path, the source argument is optional, as the file will be opened and read.

moz.l10n.resource.serialize_resource

from moz.l10n.resource import serialize_resource

def serialize_resource(
    resource: Resource[str, str] | Resource[Message, str],
    format: Format | None = None,
    trim_comments: bool = False
) -> Iterator[str]

Serialize a Resource as its string representation.

If format is set, it overrides the resource.format value.

With trim_comments, all standalone and attached comments are left out of the serialization.

moz.l10n.util.walk_files

from moz.l10n.util import walk_files

def walk_files(
    root: str,
    dirs: list[str] | None = None,
    ignorepath: str | None = ".l10n-ignore"
) -> Iterator[str]

Iterate through all files under the root directory. Use dirs to limit the search to only some subdirectories under root.

All files and directories with names starting with . are ignored. To ignore other files, include a .l10n-ignore file in root, or some other location passed in as ignorepath. This file uses git-ignore syntax, and is always based in the root directory.