[openstack-dev] [oslo][i18n] Dropping lazy translation support

Ben Nemec openstack at nemebean.com
Mon Aug 19 17:17:08 UTC 2019



On 8/19/19 7:46 AM, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> Sorry for replying the old mail, and please cc me when reply.
> 
> Matt Riedemann <mriedemos at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> This is a follow up to a dev ML email [1] where I noticed that some
>> implementations of the upgrade-checkers goal were failing because some
>> projects still use the oslo_i18n.enable_lazy() hook for lazy log message
>> translation (and maybe API responses?).
>>
>> The very old blueprints related to this can be found here [2][3][4].
>>
>> If memory serves me correctly from my time working at IBM on this, this
>> was needed to:
>>
>> 1. Generate logs translated in other languages.
>>
>> 2. Return REST API responses if the "Accept-Language" header was used
>> and a suitable translation existed for that language.
>>
>> #1 is a dead horse since I think at least the Ocata summit when we
>> agreed to no longer translate logs since no one used them.
>>
>> #2 is probably something no one knows about. I can't find end-user
>> documentation about it anywhere. It's not tested and therefore I have no
>> idea if it actually works anymore.
>>
>> I would like to (1) deprecate the oslo_i18n.enable_lazy() function so
>> new projects don't use it and (2) start removing the enable_lazy() usage
>> from existing projects like keystone, glance and cinder.
>>
>> Are there any users, deployments or vendor distributions that still rely
>> on this feature? If so, please speak up now.
> 
> I was pointed to this discussion when I tried to fix this feature in keystone,
> https://review.opendev.org/677117
> 
> For #2 translated API response, this feature probably hasn't been
> working for some time, but it's still a valid user case.
> 
> Has the decision been settled?
> 

Not to my knowledge. Lazy translation still exists, but I don't know 
that anyone is testing it.

Are you saying that you are using this feature now, or are you 
interested in using it going forward?



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