Better validated text fields with translations and human-friendly texts: first draft

AllTranslationAssets.ts

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-import CompiledTranslations from "./assets/generated/CompiledTranslations";
-
-export default class AllTranslationAssets {
-
-    public static t = CompiledTranslations.t;
-}

Models/ThemeConfig/TagRenderingConfig.ts

@@ -93,10 +93,22 @@ export default class TagRenderingConfig {
             if (json.freeform.addExtraTags !== undefined && json.freeform.addExtraTags.map === undefined) {
                 throw `Freeform.addExtraTags should be a list of strings - not a single string (at ${context})`
             }
+           const type = json.freeform.type ?? "string"
+
+            let placeholder = Translations.T(json.freeform.placeholder)
+            if (placeholder === undefined) {
+                const typeDescription = Translations.t.validation[type]?.description
+                placeholder = Translations.T(json.freeform.key+" ("+type+")")
+                if(typeDescription !== undefined){
+                    console.log(typeDescription)
+                    placeholder = placeholder.Fuse(typeDescription, type)
+                }
+            }
+
             this.freeform = {
                 key: json.freeform.key,
-                type: json.freeform.type ?? "string",
+                type,
-                placeholder: Translations.T(json.freeform.placeholder ?? (json.freeform.key + "(" + (json.freeform.type ?? "string") + ")")),
+                placeholder,
                 addExtraTags: json.freeform.addExtraTags?.map((tg, i) =>
                     TagUtils.Tag(tg, `${context}.extratag[${i}]`)) ?? [],
                 inline: json.freeform.inline ?? false,
@@ -375,6 +387,7 @@ export default class TagRenderingConfig {
     public GetRenderValue(tags: any, defltValue: any = undefined): Translation {
         return this.GetRenderValueWithImage(tags, defltValue).then
     }
+
     /**
      * Gets the correct rendering value (or undefined if not known)
      * Not compatible with multiAnswer - use GetRenderValueS instead in that case

UI/Input/ValidatedTextField.ts

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import Table from "../Base/Table";
 import Combine from "../Base/Combine";
 import Title from "../Base/Title";
 import InputElementMap from "./InputElementMap";
+import Translations from "../i18n/Translations";
 
 interface TextFieldDef {
     name: string,
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ class WikidataTextField implements TextFieldDef {
         ]).AsMarkdown()
 
 
-    public isValid(str) {
+    public isValid(str) : boolean{
 
         if (str === undefined) {
             return false;
@@ -490,6 +491,7 @@ export default class ValidatedTextField {
      * {string (typename) --> TextFieldDef}
      */
     public static AllTypes: Map<string, TextFieldDef> = ValidatedTextField.allTypesDict();
+    private static Tranlations: string | BaseUIElement;
 
     public static InputForType(type: string, options?: {
         placeholder?: string | BaseUIElement,
@@ -508,7 +510,9 @@ export default class ValidatedTextField {
         inputStyle?: string
     }): InputElement<string> {
         options = options ?? {};
-        options.placeholder = options.placeholder ?? type;
+        if(options.placeholder === undefined) {
+            options.placeholder = Translations.t.validation[type]?.description  ?? type
+        }
         const tp: TextFieldDef = ValidatedTextField.AllTypes.get(type)
         const isValidTp = tp.isValid;
         let isValid;

UI/i18n/Translations.ts

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 import {FixedUiElement} from "../Base/FixedUiElement";
-import AllTranslationAssets from "../../AllTranslationAssets";
 import {Translation} from "./Translation";
 import BaseUIElement from "../BaseUIElement";
 import * as known_languages from "../../assets/generated/used_languages.json"
+import CompiledTranslations from "../../assets/generated/CompiledTranslations";
+
 export default class Translations {
 
-    static t = AllTranslationAssets.t;
+    static t = CompiledTranslations.t;
     private static knownLanguages = new Set(known_languages.languages)
     constructor() {
         throw "Translations is static. If you want to intitialize a new translation, use the singular form"

langs/en.json

@@ -517,5 +517,16 @@
   },
   "importInspector": {
     "title": "Inspect and manage import notes"
+  },
+  "validation": {
+    "string": {
+      "description": "a piece of text"
+    },
+    "pnat": {
+      "description": "a positive number"
+    },
+    "nat": {
+      "description": "a positive number or zero"
+    }
   }
 }

test/TestAll.ts

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ import ReplaceGeometrySpec from "./ReplaceGeometry.spec";
 import LegacyThemeLoaderSpec from "./LegacyThemeLoader.spec";
 import T from "./TestHelper";
 import CreateNoteImportLayerSpec from "./CreateNoteImportLayer.spec";
+import ValidatedTextFieldTranslations from "./ValidatedTextFieldTranslations.spec";
+import ValidatedTextFieldTranslationsSpec from "./ValidatedTextFieldTranslations.spec";
 
 
 async function main() {
@@ -38,7 +40,8 @@ async function main() {
         new ActorsSpec(),
         new ReplaceGeometrySpec(),
         new LegacyThemeLoaderSpec(),
-        new CreateNoteImportLayerSpec()
+        new CreateNoteImportLayerSpec(),
+        new ValidatedTextFieldTranslationsSpec()
     ]
 
     Utils.externalDownloadFunction = async (url) => {

test/ValidatedTextFieldTranslations.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import T from "./TestHelper";
+import ValidatedTextField from "../UI/Input/ValidatedTextField";
+import Translations from "../UI/i18n/Translations";
+
+export default class ValidatedTextFieldTranslationsSpec extends T {
+    constructor() {
+        super([
+            ["Test all", () => {
+                const ts = Translations.t.validation;
+                console.log("Hello world!")
+                const allErrors = Array.from(ValidatedTextField.AllTypes.keys()).map(key => {
+                    const errors = []
+                    const t = ts[key]
+                    if (t === undefined) {
+                        errors.push("No tranlations at all for " + key)
+                    }
+                    return errors;
+                })
+                const errs = [].concat(...allErrors)
+                if (errs.length > 0) {
+                    errs.forEach(e => console.log(e))
+                   // throw errs.join("\n")
+                }
+            }]
+        ]);
+    }
+}