fix: ignore global translations (#18733) (#18735)

_("string") outside of function/methods don't make any sense cause they
are initialized the moment module is imported. This is already checked
in CI yet people make this mistake.

Ignore and refuse to translate in those cases.

(cherry picked from commit a1a296a)

Co-authored-by: Ankush Menat <ankush@frappe.io>

frappe/tests/test_translate.py

@@ -112,6 +112,14 @@ def test_guest_request_language_resolution_with_cookie(self):
 
 		self.assertIn(return_val, [second_lang, get_parent_language(second_lang)])
 
+	def test_global_translations(self):
+		""" """
+		site = frappe.local.site
+		frappe.destroy()
+		_("this shouldn't break")
+		frappe.init(site=site)
+		frappe.connect()
+
 	def test_guest_request_language_resolution_with_request_header(self):
 		"""Test for frappe.translate.get_language
 

frappe/translate.py

@@ -291,7 +291,12 @@ def _merge_translations():
 
 		return all_translations
 
-	return frappe.cache().hget(MERGED_TRANSLATION_KEY, lang, generator=_merge_translations)
+	try:
+		return frappe.cache().hget(MERGED_TRANSLATION_KEY, lang, generator=_merge_translations)
+	except Exception:
+		# People mistakenly call translation function on global variables
+		# where locals are not initalized, translations dont make much sense there
+		return {}
 
 
 def get_translations_from_apps(lang, apps=None):