Translating String Literals in JavaScript

[0b11001111]

I spent the entire day to figure out why my translations for JS string literals did not show up on the website.
Turns out that my addon explicitly had to register for that by inheriting ir.http and overwriting _get_translation_frontend_modules_name to include itself.

There are plenty of posts on the web of people that seem to have the same issue, some of them years old.
If my solution follows the idiomatic way, I'd volunteer to make a PR extending the docs respectively.

Otherwise please add a note to the respective section that translations won't become active on their own...

[mart-e]

Note that if your module starts with website, you don't need to (and this is the convention we usually have, website_sale, website_event,...)
But sure to add more info in the documentation :)

[0b11001111]

Done, see #1710

I've observed this behaviour of assigning semantics to identifiers at other places in Odoo and consider it bad style from an engineering perspective, especially if the docs don't mention it.

Just out of curiosity: are there other addon prefixes that cause special behaviour? Like theme_*?

An overview of such, let's say surprising, patterns would be fantastic. For instance, it took me a while to understand that inheritance of odoo models actually means composition...