Introduction

Zanata Python client is a client that communicates with a Zanata server [http://zanata.org/] to push text for translation (from publican documents or gettext-based software), and pull translated text back for inclusion in software or documentation builds.

It also provides support for creating projects/versions in Zanata and retrieving information about projects.

Install

You can install the zanata-python-client with:

$ yum install zanata-python-client

To install from source:

$ make install

Compiling

Required package for compilation:

yum install python-polib

Required package for unit tests:

yum install python-minimock python-mock

To run pylint against the source code:

$ make lint

To run unit tests:

$ make test

Configuration

After you install the zanata-python-client, you need to create a configuration file in $HOME/.config/zanata.ini that contains user-specific configuration. For infomation on how to create a configuration file, go to: http://zanata.org/help/cli-configuration/

For each project, you need to write a project-specific configuration file named zanata.xml. An example can be found here: https://github.com/zanata/zanata-server/blob/master/zanata.xml

You can also override the URL of the server with the command line option --url. Use --username for user name and --apikey for api key of user.

Command List

Name: /usr/bin/zanata

If you type zanata in the shell, it will give you basic information for working with a Zanata server. You can use zanata --help to get more help.

Basic Usage: zanata COMMAND [ARGS] [COMMAND_OPTIONS]

Listing/Querying for Projects:

$ zanata list --url

Creating a project:

$ zanata project create {project_id} --project-name={project_name} --project-desc={project_description}

Create a Project Version:

$ zanata version create {version_id} --project-id={project_id} --version-name={version_name} --version-desc={version_description}

Query for information of a project:

$ zanata project info --project-id={project_id}

Query for information of a project iteration:

$ zanata version info --project-id={project_id} --project-version={version_id}

Publishing Templates (source text) to Zanata.

If you want to push only one template file to zanata server, you can use command below:

$ zanata publican push --project-id={project_id} --project-version={iteration_id} [documentName..]

If documentName is omitted, the publican push command will push all the template files under the template folder to the Zanata server. You can specify the path of template folder by command line option --srcdir. If you don't provide such info, the command will try to locate template folder in current path:

$ zanata publican push --project-id={project_id} --project-version={iteration_id} --srcdir={template_folder}

$ zanata publican push --project-id={project_id} --project-version={iteration_id}

Or if you run command below in a folder containing a template folder with zanata.xml in it, it will load all the info from configuration file:

$ zanata publican push

You can use the import-po option and the related translation (po files) will be pushed to zanata server at the same time.

You need to specify the parent folder that contains all the translations by the transDir option. By default it will read the language info from the project configuration file (zanata.xml), or you can specify the language that you want to push to the zanata server by lang option:

$ zanata publican push --import-po --trandir={path of parent folder contains locale folders} --lang=lang1,lang2,..

When pushing source files, the server can try to fill in equivalent translations for those files, from this project or other projects (depending on the project options on the server). In previous versions, this was enabled by default. You can set the --copytrans option to enable this function:

$ zanata publican push --copytrans

Retrieving translated Documents from zanata.

If you want to retrieve only one file from zanata server, you can use:

$ zanata publican pull --project-id={project_id} --project-version={iteration_id} [documentName..]

Without indicating the documentName, this command will pull all the documents of a project version on zanata server to a local output folder. It reads the language info from project configuration file (zanata.xml), or you can specify the language that you want to pull from the zanata server by the --lang option:

$ zanata publican pull --project-id={project_id} --project-version={iteration_id} --lang=lang1,lang2,.. --dstdir={output_folder}

$ zanata publican pull --project-id={project_id} --project-version={iteration_id} --lang=lang1,lang2,..

You can also simply run this in a folder containing zanata.xml and it will load all the info from configuration file:

$ zanata publican pull

Push and pull software project with Zanata

If you want to only push a software project file to the zanata server:

$ zanata po push --project-id={project_id} --project-version={iteration_id} [documentName..]

Without giving the documentName, po push will push all source files of the project under the po folder to zanata server. You can specify the path of the po folder with --srcdir={po_folder_name}, if you don't provide such info, the command will try to locate the po folder in the current path:

$ zanata po push --project-id={project_id} --project-version={iteration_id} --srcdir={po_folder}

$ zanata po push --project-id={project_id} --project-version={iteration_id}

Or you can simply run this in a folder containing a po folder with zanata.xml and it will load all the info from configuration file:

$ zanata po push

You can use the --import-po option and related translations will be pushed to the zanata server at the same time. You can specify the parent folder that contains all the translations with --transdir={path_of_parent_folder_contains_translation_files}, or the client will use the path of po folder as the 'transdir'. By default, command will read the language info from project configuration file (zanata.xml), or you can specify the language that you want to push to the zanata server by 'lang' option:

$ zanata po push --import-po --trandir={path of parent folder contains translation files, such as zh-CN.po} --lang=lang1,lang2,..

When pushing source files, the server can try to fill in equivalent translations for those files, from this project or other projects (depending on the project options on the server). In previous versions, this was enabled by default. You can set the --copytrans option to enable this function:

$ zanata po push --copytrans

Retrieving Software project translation from zanata

If you want to retrieve the software translation from the zanata server, you can use the command below:

$ zanata po pull --project-id={project_id} --project-version={iteration_id} [softwareName..]

Without indicating the software name, this command will pull all the translations of a project version on the zanata server to a local output folder. It reads the language info from project configuration file (zanata.xml), or you can specify the language that you want to pull from the zanata server by the --lang option:

$ zanata po pull --project-id={project_id} --project-version={iteration_id} --lang=lang1,lang2,.. --dstdir={output_folder}

$ zanata po pull --project-id={project_id} --project-version={iteration_id} --lang=lang1,lang2,..

you can also simply run this in a folder containing a zanata.xml file and it will load all the info from the configuration file:

$ zanata po pull