Connecting to a Translation Service

Document Authoring comes with a Translate app working out-of-the-box. This app is powered by Google translate and can be used as-is as to localize pages. However there are a variety of translation services available to content editors and you may want to connect your own to Document Authoring. Because most of Document Authoring is open-source, all the tools that you need to create your own connection are available to you.

Implementing Your Own Connector

To connect your translation service, you must implement the following functions.

• isConnected() to determine if the user is authenticated to the service
• connect() to connect to the service
• getItems() to retrieve translation items from the service
• sendAllLanguages() to send content for translation
• getStatusAll() to retrieve the status of sent translation tasks

This is the minimal API that Document Authoring requires to connect to any translation service. For a working example, check out the existing Smartling connector. Your connector will similarly need to implement all exported functions.

You are Not on Your Own

As an open-source project, the Document Authoring team is happy to expand DA's capabilities. If you need to connect to your own translation service, create a pull request against the Nexter project and we will be happy to review.