Introduction to Locales

If you have implemented any custom actions you might be interested in providing translations for them. We have a simple mechanism to allow just that: add a locales attribute to the implementation.info response. This is completely optional and if you don't provide any translations we'll just humanize the custom action names.

Example Response with Translations:

{
    "objects": {
        "messages": ["list", "show", "spam"],
        "threads": ["list", "show"]
    },
    "options": [],
    "locales": {
        "default": {"spam": "Mark as spam"},
        "fr": {"spam": "Marquer comme indésirable"}
    }
}

When we display a custom action example for a language lang we do the following:

• use locales['lang']['example'] if defined
• use locales['default']['example'] if defined
• use example.humanize otherwise.

Currently our interface is available in English and French.

Please bear in mind that this mechanism only works for custom actions.