Weblate outputs empty Android string entities

[arkon]

Describe the issue

We were notified in https://github.com/tachiyomiorg/tachiyomi/pull/6607 (c.f. the PR diff) that the strings sometimes contain invalid empty string entities, e.g.,

<string name="foo" />

I already tried

• I've read and searched the documentation.
• I've searched for similar issues in this repository.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Unsure, seems to be the existing Weblate behavior

Expected behavior

• Entities are not included in the XML file if there's not translations.
• Weblate enforces all plurals items if needed

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Exception traceback

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How do you run Weblate?

weblate.org service

Weblate versions

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Weblate deploy checks

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Additional context

The related project: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/tachiyomi/strings/

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[arkon]

This still needs to be triaged.

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The issue you've reported needs to be addressed in the translate-toolkit. Please file the issue there, and include links to any relevant specifications about the formats (if applicable).

[nijel]

This happens in case the string translation is being removed in Weblate. In case you don't want such entries to be present, you can use Remove blank strings add-on. If this is generally desired for this file format, it should be probably addressed in the translate-toolkit.

[arkon]

Thanks, the add-on works.

translate/translate#3281 seems to partially address the plurals issue, but it may be possible for Weblate to enforce validation on their end to require all quantities.

[nijel]

Not writing some strings to the files by Weblate should be covered by #3745.

Back to the original topic - is this general with the Android strings, or is this behavior specific to your use case?

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[arkon]

This should be the general desired behaviour, yes. Empty strings are invalid (but the system may still fall back to another locale's version), while incomplete plurals will crash apps.

[nijel]

Okay, I've made the add-on installed by default for the Android files.