Format.JS: Keys with dots result in nested objects

[hydrandt]

I am (finally) transferring our in-house translations management system to Weblate. We use react-intl, and had a custom file format with translation keys (developer defined, like general.menu), values and translation hints ("shown under main menu icon").

I decided to transform our custom format to Format.JS, as it was fairly easy.

The problem: We have dots in key names. This seems to be a problem (or I did something wrong). What went in:

  "activity.activity-type-required": {
    "defaultMessage": "Activity type must be selected"
  },
  "activity.form.next": {
    "defaultMessage": "Next"
  },
  "activity.form.cancel": {
    "defaultMessage": "Cancel"
  },

What came out (in Gitlab Merge request, right after the import finished):

"activity": {
    "activity-type-required": {
        "defaultMessage": "Activity type must be selected"
    },
    "form": {
        "next": {
            "defaultMessage": "Next"
        },
        "cancel": {
            "defaultMessage": "Cancel"
        },
        "contact-required": {
            "defaultMessage": "Contact information is required"
        },

Moreover, it seems like most of the translations got lost. My guess would be that only the translations with keys without dots made it - but I didn't check.

Is this expected behavior, or is this a bug? Using hosted version of weblate.

The folder on the branch that Weblate is set to: https://gitlab.com/greensteps/ark/-/tree/1867-weblate-integration/frontend/src/lang/locales?ref_type=heads

The merge request: https://gitlab.com/greensteps/ark/-/merge_requests/1286

[hydrandt]

Update: After resetting the weblate repository (Danger zone -> Reset all changes in the Weblate repository). the keys are showing correctly in the web interface and the already translated content is there too.

After commiting and pushing, the resulting file is stil nested according to dots in the key, thou.

[nijel]

This should be addressed by translate/translate#5462 (the fix is not yet released).

[hydrandt]

Awesome, thank you for the answer. Is there a timeline for when this fix is to be released for the hosted version? Just to know when to try again:) Díky!

[nijel]

Let's release it now, too many people are asking when it will be out (there are other fixes included as well).

[nijel]

https://github.com/translate/translate/releases/tag/3.14.6, it will be deployed to Hosted Weblate soon, but I want to deploy #13540 as well, so it might take some time.

[hydrandt]

Works perfectly now. Thank you for the quick response!