LingoHubCLI

The lingohub command line tool makes it super-easy to upload and download localisable resources to and from LingoHub.

It currently supports iOS and Android projects (with the option to extend to any platforms).

Important note: Only base translations are uploaded to LingoHub and base translations are never overwritten with data from LingoHub. This means, alterations to the base have to be done within the project by a developer.

Upload

$ lingohub upload

The tool extracts the base translation of the project and uploads it to LingoHub for translation.

Download

$ lingohub download

The tool downloads all available translated resources of the project from LingoHub and places them in the proper folder.

Installation

See Build & Distribution section below for building the tool from source.

For easy install on macOS, find the latest binary in the release section.

Use the tool locally in your project folder or copy it to /usr/local/bin/ for global access.

Configuration

The configuration is done using the .lingorc file in the project root folder.

Property	Description
platform	ios, android Specifies the platform of the project. File locations and naming conventions depend on this.
team	The slug of the team from LingoHub. For instance: "bikemap-gmbh"
project	The slug of the project name from LingoHub. For instance: 'ios-test'
token	The authorisation token generated by LingoHub.
projectFolder	Optional Defaults to the current directory.
translationFolder	The folder where the translations are stored. For instance app/src/main/res for Android.
baseLocale	The base translation's locale. Your default language. This local will be the one uploaded to LingoHub, however it is never downloaded.
separator	The separator you used for your uploaded resources.

Example .lingorc:

{
  "platform": "android",
  "team": "bikemap-gmbh",
  "project": "android-test",
  "token": "your-token",
  "projectFolder": "/Users/path/to/projet/folder/",
  "translationFolder": "app/src/main/res",
  "baseLocale": "en",
  "separator": "_"
}

Naming Convention

iOS

According to LingoHub documentation, we put the locale in the files names, for instance: Localizable_zh-Hans-CN.strings or BMRideStartBottomBarView_it.strings". The locale is then recognised by LingoHub automatically.

The locale format depends on the platform (e.g. simplified Chinese on iOS is zh-Hans-CN). Then you define your separator (_ in the above example) to work with your local files and folders.

Android

Android differs in a way that they need an additional "r" in the name of the folders, where the language is used in different countries. For instace the Brazilian Portuguese locale folder looks like this: src/main/res/values-pt-rBR.

So for this reason we upload the strings files named like strings-pt-rBR.xml. The lingohub script then uses these locales in the file name when placing the new translations into the project.

Build & Distribution

You need swift 4 to be installed.

$ swift build -c release -Xswiftc -static-stdlib
Compile Swift Module 'LingoHubCLI' (5 sources)
Linking ./.build/x86_64-apple-macosx10.10/release/LingoHubCLI

$ cp ./.build/x86_64-apple-macosx10.10/release/LingoHubCLI ./lingohub

Or to install globally:

$ cp -f ./.build/x86_64-apple-macosx10.10/release/LingoHubCLI /usr/local/bin/lingohub

Contribution

To support more platforms:

• add a new class that confirms to the ResourceProvider protocol,
• implement project specific logic,
• extend the func engage() in the main.swift file.