virtualx-engine/doc/classes/EditorTranslationParserPlugin.xml

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<class name="EditorTranslationParserPlugin" inherits="Reference" version="4.0">
	<brief_description>
		Plugin for adding custom parsers to extract strings that are to be translated from custom files (.csv, .json etc.).
	</brief_description>
	<description>
		Plugins are registered via [method EditorPlugin.add_translation_parser_plugin] method. To define the parsing and string extraction logic, override the [method parse_file] method in script.
		The extracted strings will be written into a POT file selected by user under "POT Generation" in "Localization" tab in "Project Settings" menu.
		Below shows an example of a custom parser that extracts strings in a CSV file to write into a POT.
		[codeblock]
		tool
		extends EditorTranslationParserPlugin


		func parse_file(path, extracted_strings):
		    var file = File.new()
		    file.open(path, File.READ)
		    var text = file.get_as_text()
		    var split_strs = text.split(",", false, 0)
		    for s in split_strs:
		        extracted_strings.append(s)
		        #print("Extracted string: " + s)


		func get_recognized_extensions():
		    return ["csv"]
		[/codeblock]
		[b]Note:[/b] If you override parsing logic for standard script types (GDScript, C#, etc.), it would be better to load the [code]path[/code] argument using [method ResourceLoader.load]. This is because built-in scripts are loaded as [Resource] type, not [File] type.
		For example:
		[codeblock]
		func parse_file(path, extracted_strings):
		    var res = ResourceLoader.load(path, "Script")
		    var text = res.get_source_code()
		    # Parsing logic.


		func get_recognized_extensions():
		    return ["gd"]			
		[/codeblock]
	</description>
	<tutorials>
	</tutorials>
	<methods>
		<method name="get_recognized_extensions" qualifiers="virtual">
			<return type="Array">
			</return>
			<description>
				Gets the list of file extensions to associate with this parser, e.g. [code]["csv"][/code].
			</description>
		</method>
		<method name="parse_file" qualifiers="virtual">
			<return type="void">
			</return>
			<argument index="0" name="path" type="String">
			</argument>
			<argument index="1" name="extracted_strings" type="Array">
			</argument>
			<description>
				Override this method to define a custom parsing logic to extract the translatable strings.
			</description>
		</method>
	</methods>
	<constants>
	</constants>
</class>