Is it possible to read translate secret from environment variable?

[p0deje]

I wonder if it's possible to configure .bartycrouch.toml to read the API key from an environment variable? I would hate to accidentally commit it to https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy/blob/master/.bartycrouch.toml. Something like this:

[update.translate]
translator = "deepL"
secret = ${DEEPL_TOKEN}

[p0deje]

For now, I'm doing it like this which is far from perfect:

gsed -i "s/<replace>/$DEEPL_TOKEN/" .bartycrouch.toml && bartycrouch update -v; git checkout -- .bartycrouch.toml

[Jeehut]

I don't think it's possible right now and I'm not maintaining this actively, just reviewing PRs. You could implement an override of whatever is provided in the TOML file in Swift though where the token is used. I think that would be the easiest way to support ENV vars. Then you just provide an empty String in the .toml file and the code uses your ENV var.

I personally recommend migrating to String Catalogs, which offer many of the features BartyCrouch offers, like auto-extracting new keys from your code or warning against empty translations. Only thing it doesn't support is machine-translation, but I built an app for that, just use String Catalog Translator. You just drag & drop the String Catalog and translate, it's really easy.

[p0deje]

Thank you for response. I don't think I can easily migrate to Strings Catalogs, mainly because I want to sync XIB files with localization files. I did a quick test and I couldn't find a way to make sure changes in Interface Builder are propagated to all localization files - this is where BartyCrouch is extremely helpful.

String Catalog Translator looks great, did you consider making it free for OSS projects similar to Remafox?

[Jeehut]

@p0deje I'd love to make any of my developer apps free to use in Open Source projects! I just didn't have the time to implement it properly yet, but I might add the same check like in RemafoX. But this feature might take some time, for the time being, I could offer you a free 1st year if you can show me that you're a core contributor to an open-source app. Which one are we talking about?

[p0deje]

@Jeehut I'm actually looking into using https://weblate.org to simplify contributing translation and it doesn't support string catalogues AFAICT so I'll postpone the migration. The project I refer to is https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy.

[Jeehut]

@p0deje I also have something in the works that will help correct machine-translations. It's gonna be a framework with a nice UI to ask users to help translate a few texts in <1 minute, with the option to add an extra button somewhere in your app to contribute even more for those who want. This way you could send your app to someone and let them translate it right inside your app and pull the translations later. It'll take a few more months until completion, but just for your information.

Alright, that's a cool project and you're the main contributor. So, I'm willing to send a full year free code, where can I send it to? Feel free to DM me on Twitter or Mastodon, or hit me up with an email. 🙌

[p0deje]

@Jeehut Let me know when your project is near completion, I would be happy to see how it might fit into Maccy's workflow. In regards to the code, thanks a lot, I'll keep that in mind, but I'll have to postpone migration to Strings Catalog anyway. 🙇‍♂️