'crowdin.yml', adding base_path configuration support for each files entry

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If the project has multiple paths of files that need to be localized (this is the scenario for most projects)

For example, the Android project:

  • app/**/res/values/strings.xml
  • app/**/res/values/other_strings.xml
  • README.md
  • wiki/*.md
  • …

If there is only one base_path configuration:

base_path: "/"

files:
   - source: "/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml"
     translation: "/app/src/main/res/values-%android_code%/%original_file_name%"

   - source: "/app/src/main/res/values/other_strings.xml"
     translation: "/app/src/main/res/values-%android_code%/%original_file_name%"

   - source: "/README.md"
     translation: "/%file_name%_%two_letters_code%.md"

   - source: "/wiki/**.md"
     translation: "/wiki/**/%file_name%_%two_letters_code%.md"

I want the configuration item format to be:

# base_path: "/"

files:
   - base_path: "/app/src/main/res"
     source: "values/strings.xml"
     translation: "values-%android_code%/%original_file_name%"

   - base_path: "/app/src/main/res"
     source: "values/*_strings.xml"
     translation: "values-%android_code%/%original_file_name%"
     ignore: 
          - values/exclude_strings.xml

   - source: "/README.md"
     translation: "/%file_name%_%two_letters_code%.md"

   - base_path: "/wiki"
     source: "**.md"
     translation: "**/%file_name%_%two_letters_code%.md"

This increases relative path flexibility

2

Hello @HuShenghao,

Multiply base paths are not supported in Crowdin CLI. You can specify the common path in the base path and the rest you should specify in the source and translation patterns.

3

Will consider adding this feature?

4

You’re welcome to submit this idea here

If it gets a lot of votes we will consider it for future improvements!

5

Hi @HuShenghao currently, we are not considering adding this feature since we didn’t receive similar requests earlier.

The main reason here is that the crowdin.yml configuration file is also using in many other our integrations (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, VS Code plugin, Android Studio plugin).

So we carefully decide which features we add to the configuration since it requires a lot of effort implementing it in other integrations.