My custom MachineTranslation always give empty translation

[NicolasBFR]

Hello everyone,

I tried making a POC of a MachineTranslation with a fix translation:

from weblate.machinery.base import DownloadTranslations, MachineTranslation


class MyTranslation(MachineTranslation):
    """Sample machine translation interface."""

    name = "APOC"

    def download_languages(self):
        """Return list of languages your machine translation supports."""
        return {"fr", "en", "es" "pt"}

    def download_translations(
        self,
        source_language,
        target_language,
        text: str,
        unit,
        user,
        threshold: int = 75,
    ) -> DownloadTranslations:
        yield {"text": "BIG TRANSLATOR IS TRANSLATING YOU", "quality": min(threshold + 1, 100), "service": self.name, "source": text}

I added it in my docker-compose.yml to the Weblate service:

    volumes:
    - weblate-data:/app/data
    - ./weblate_customize:/app/data/python/customize
    - weblate-cache:/app/cache
    environment:
      WEBLATE_ADD_MACHINERY: "customize.my_translation.MyTranslation"

I then had problems with the permissions so I made a chown 1000:1000 and chmod 777 on the python file.

Now no more permissions show up in the weblate-docker-weblate-1 console, but I always get Your suggestion is empty!, despite it being the sole automatic suggestion service activated.

What am I doing wrong ?

I am using the Docker image latest, Weblate v5.13.3 as I am writing

Thanks in advance 🙏

Nicolas

[nijel]

“Your suggestion is empty!” appears when you submit a manual suggestion and it is empty; it has nothing to do with automatic suggestions. Those would appear on the “Automatic suggestions” tab.

[NicolasBFR]

I just spent my morning fixing a non issue 🫠

Thanks a lot !
PS: the documentation custom example is confusing with the import dictionary which doesn't exist.