Transcoding Fluent.js to Java for L10n tools

Fluent
#1

Hi,

There are too many FTL files for Thunderbird L10n now, so I’m going to try to write Java code to deal with them in MozillaTranslator or its successor. I don’t plan to write a full Java transcodification of Fluent libraries, just the strictly needed code to parsing (including comments and spaces, not just meaningful elements) and writing FTL files.

I plan to use fluent.js as the reference model (I think it is the closer syntax to Java, apart from C#, but I’m hesitant to use a non-official implementation as model). Of all JS Fluent packages, I’d say the one I need is fluent/syntax. Am I right? Will I need something else besides it?

TIA

#2

The syntax package stuff is what you’d be looking at. There is https://www.projectfluent.org/fluent-kotlin/ as well, which already has parsing and serializing.

The quickest way to get Fluent support would probably be Pontoon, though. Reaching out to @mozkewisch should be all that’s needed. Just sayin’ :wink:

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