Extraction on a folder

[syrjay]

Hi @lassoan , Actually I have improved the extraction package so that it can run on a folder containing several .py files
in this case, what would be the context name? It won't be able to be packagename.classname, because we will have several files in the folder, I don't know if you understand what I mean...

[lassoan]

In Python, the same classname is often used in multiple packages, that's why we need to add the package name (which is the folder name) to generate a context name. So, the context name is folderName.className.

For example, for this message, the context would be DICOM.DICOMFileDialog. This is not completely arbitrary, because this is the same how you would access this class in Python:

>>> import DICOM
>>> DICOM.DICOMFileDialog
<class 'DICOM.DICOMFileDialog'>

The filename is not used for generating the context name. We would only use the relative file path and line number in the location attribute, for the translator's convenience (so that he can look up where exactly each string comes from).

[syrjay]

Yes it is possible when it is a single file, that's what I did, but here it is about extracting strings in several files at once. For example when I tried the same thing with lupdate on the Slicer folder, the context name is "Dialog"... but for the location tag, I can find the exact path for each string. Le ven. 20 mai 2022 à 02:27, Andras Lasso ***@***.***> a écrit :

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In Python, the same classname is often used in multiple packages, that's why we need to add the package name (which is the folder name) to generate a context name. So, the context name is folderName.className. For example, for this message <https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/blob/43e8f5b2407b4c83509406b1acf266e25412eb49/Modules/Scripted/DICOM/DICOM.py#L490-L491>, the context would be DICOM.DICOMFileDialog. This is not completely arbitrary, because this is the same how you would access this class in Python: >>> import DICOM >>> DICOM.DICOMFileDialog <class 'DICOM.DICOMFileDialog'> The filename is not used for generating the context name. We would only use the relative file path and line number in the location attribute, for the translator's convenience (so that he can look up where exactly each string comes from). — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#7 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AO5IL6KZFMCAFH4KF466MADVK32B5ANCNFSM5WN2TG2Q> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[lassoan]

Dialog context is an exception. lupdate picked up some unused file (qSlicerAnnotationModulePropertyDialogWIP.ui). The whole Annotations module (Modules\Loadable\Annotations) will be removed soon.

For normal cases, you'll see that the context is the class name for classes defined in C++ code and by .ui fies. However, this is insufficient for Python, becase in Python the same classname is often used in multiple packages. That's why we need to add the package name (which is the folder name) to generate a context name. So, the context name for Python classes is folderName.className.

If you have any doubts what the context name should be for any string in any .py file then let me know.