Advanced JSON Configuration

Specifying Multiple Blocks for Translation

If you have more than one translatable block in your JSON file, and you need to apply different rules, you can define your “translate_paths” (XPath format) as an array, like this:

{
     "smartling": {
        "translate_paths": [{
          "key": "/Buttons/button",
          "path": "/Buttons/text"
        }, {
          "key": "/Errors/{Id}",
          "path": "/Errors/message"
        }]
     }
}

When specifying multiple translate blocks, especially if using wildcards, try to avoid situations where a path in your file matches more than one block. If this does happen, an exact path match will take precedence over a match with wildcards

Compound Keys

You can define a compound key - joining two different paths - using a comma-separated list of paths surrounded by square brackets, like this:

{
     "smartling": {
        "translate_paths": {
          "key": ["/Buttons/button","/Buttons/type"],
          "path": "/Buttons/text"
        }
        },
        "Buttons": [{
           "button": "button1",
           "type" : "active",
           "text": "Home"
       },
      {
           "button": "button2",
           "type" : "active",
           "text": "Back" 
      }]
}

This will capture both paths as the key, separated by :#:. For example: button1:#:active

All parts of the compound key must match content in the file or no key will be returned.

Complete Example

See below for a complete example of a JSON configuration involving multiple translate blocks, compound keys, and both JSON names and JSON values captured as keys.

{
     "smartling": {
        "translate_paths": [{
          "path": "*/title",
          "key": "{*}/title",
          "instruction": "*/note"
        }, {
          "path": "*/summary",
          "key": ["{*}/summary", "*/title"]
        }]
     },
     "key1": {
        "note": "Released 1994",
        "title": "Forrest Gump",
        "summary": "A movie about a guy called Forrest Gump."
     },
     "key2": {
        "note": "Released 2004",
        "title": "Ray",
        "summary": "A movie about a guy called Ray."
     },
     "key3": {
        "note": "Released 1991",
        "title": "JFK",
        "summary": "A movie about a guy called Jim Garrison."
     }
}

Uploading this file to smartling will give: