// Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.
[
{
"namespace": "i18n",
"description": "Use the chrome.i18n
infrastructure to implement internationalization across your whole app or extension.",
"types": [
{
"id": "LanguageCode",
"type": "string",
"description": "An ISO language code such as en
or fr
. For a complete list of languages supported by this method, see kLanguageInfoTable. For an unknown language, und
will be returned, which means that [percentage] of the text is unknown to CLD"
}
],
"functions": [
{
"name": "getAcceptLanguages",
"type": "function",
"description": "Gets the accept-languages of the browser. This is different from the locale used by the browser; to get the locale, use $(ref:i18n.getUILanguage).",
"parameters": [
{
"type": "function",
"name": "callback",
"parameters": [
{"name": "languages", "type": "array", "items": {"$ref": "LanguageCode"}, "description": "Array of LanguageCode"}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "getMessage",
"nocompile": true,
"type": "function",
"description": "Gets the localized string for the specified message. If the message is missing, this method returns an empty string (''). If the format of the getMessage()
call is wrong — for example, messageName is not a string or the substitutions array has more than 9 elements — this method returns undefined
.",
"parameters": [
{
"type": "string",
"name": "messageName",
"description": "The name of the message, as specified in the messages.json
file."
},
{
"type": "any",
"name": "substitutions",
"optional": true,
"description": "Up to 9 substitution strings, if the message requires any."
},
{
"type": "object",
"name": "options",
"optional": true,
"properties": {
"escapeLt": {
"type": "boolean",
"optional": true,
"description": "Escape <
in translation to <
. This applies only to the message itself, not to the placeholders. Developers might want to use this if the translation is used in an HTML context. Closure Templates used with Closure Compiler generate this automatically."
}
}
}
],
"returns": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Message localized for current locale."
}
},
{
"name": "getUILanguage",
"type": "function",
"nocompile": true,
"description": "Gets the browser UI language of the browser. This is different from $(ref:i18n.getAcceptLanguages) which returns the preferred user languages.",
"parameters": [],
"returns": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The browser UI language code such as en-US or fr-FR."
}
},
{
"name": "detectLanguage",
"type": "function",
"nocompile": true,
"description": "Detects the language of the provided text using CLD.",
"parameters": [
{
"type": "string",
"name": "text",
"minimum": 0,
"description": "User input string to be translated."
},
{
"type": "function",
"name": "callback",
"parameters": [
{
"type": "object",
"name": "result",
"description": "LanguageDetectionResult object that holds detected langugae reliability and array of DetectedLanguage",
"properties": {
"isReliable": { "type": "boolean", "description": "CLD detected language reliability" },
"languages":
{
"type": "array",
"description": "array of detectedLanguage",
"items":
{
"type": "object",
"description": "DetectedLanguage object that holds detected ISO language code and its percentage in the input string",
"properties":
{
"language":
{
"$ref": "LanguageCode"
},
"percentage":
{
"type": "integer",
"description": "The percentage of the detected language"
}
}
}
}
}
}
]
}
]
}
],
"events": []
}
]