Automatic writing of files for all locales

[carlptr]

I like very much, that i18n writes the locale file automatically when a new translation string is used. What I am missing is a possibility to update the other locale files as well.
An example:
I have to locales, german (de) and english (en). I develop in german and use a new string. This string is added to the de.js file. The string is not added in the en.js file. Therefore I cannot create a translation of it. When I deploy the application now and an english user receives the translation he will get the german text as a translation was not done yet.

Are there any simple ways to deal with this?

Would it make sense to modify i18n, so that when a locale file is written, all locale files are updated?

[mashpie]

yes, both...

I think it would be a nice and easy to add feature to add new strings to all files. So I leave this issue as a note to myself :)
And, there is a method by using webtranslate it: they are able to merge and update on multiple files at once.

[jnovack]

Is there a method for getting ALL the i18n translations within your files? I have some functions which rarely get called, and all over the place. i18n only updates the file when the code is called. How can I go through all the files (with the exception of grep) to find all my i18n instances to build my en.json?

[mashpie]

currently not in api. but should be pretty easy to implement. any more specs? You need a dump of all phrases, right?

[jnovack]

Thank you, yes. I suppose an interface which dumps all the phrases would be very helpful. I imagine I would store in my project's contrib/ directory.

var i18n = require("i18n");

i18n.extract('path/');  // Traverse path for all .js files.
i18n.extract('path/to/file.js');   // Process single file.

This way I can run contrib/i18n.js before my final commit to have all the phrasing.