Description
InstantTranslate is translate5 api interface which can be used for translating text and files using the translate5 language resources (term collections, translation memories or machine translation engines).
Available language resource for InstantTranslate are the assigned resources of a customers of the current logged-in user.
For translating files, the file-extension must be configured accordingly.
Translate text with translate5 language resources .
URL: | /editor/instanttranslateapi |
Available Methods: | GET |
Specialities: | To be able to search for a text, there must be available language resources assigned to a customers of a user |
Availability: | - |
Translate text resource Layout
Name | Type | Info |
text | string | The string to translate. |
source | string | The source language to translate from. Must be valid rfc5646 code. |
target | string | The target language to translate to. Must be valid rfc5646 code. |
Translate a file with translate5 language resources
Please ensure that:
- the filetype is supported (e.g. by Okapi) and
- LanguageResources for the desired language-combination are available (order of their application: first termCollections, second TMs, third MTs).
Translating files can take a while.
URL | Methods | Parameters | Description |
/editor/instanttranslateapi/filepretranslation | POST | file: multipart/form-data; the file to translate. "0" as field name is deprecated and will not be supported in one of the next transalte5 versions. source: string; the source language to translate from. Must be valid rfc5646 code. target: string; the target language to translate to. Must be valid rfc5646 code. | Step 1: Starts a task-import with the file and its pretranslation. As long as the import is running, the response in step 2 for this file will say "isImporting" instead of returning the download-link. You might need to repeat step 2 until you get the link. The translated files are available until their configured lifetime is over; then they will be removed automatically. Response (example): {"taskId":"539"} |
/editor/instanttranslateapi/filelist | GET | Step 2: Get a list of all pretranslations that are currently available for the InstantTranslate-user including their downloadUrl. Response: allPretranslatedFiles with the data for each pretranslation-file:
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Configuration of InstantTranslate
runtimeOptions.LanguageResources.searchCharacterLimit | map | Maximum character per language resource allowed for search. The configuration key is the language resource id, and the value is the character limit. Ex: {{"1": 100},{"2": 300}} | |
runtimeOptions.InstantTranslate.pretranslationTaskLifetimeDays | int | 2 | How many days do you want to keep pretranslated files before the system removes them? |