[mqtt.generic] There is not yet any default translation properties file.

[jimtng]

There is not yet any default translation properties file.

Originally posted by @lolodomo in #12167 (comment)

I tried creating the translations file for org.openhab.binding.mqtt.generic using this command:

$ mvn org.openhab.core.tools:i18n-maven-plugin:3.2.0:generate-default-translations -pl :org.openhab.binding.mqtt.generic

It created a file called mqtt.properties

Questions:

1. Should the existing mqttbroker_de.properties be deleted? I believe this file is an orphaned file from an older binding structure
2. The mqtt.properties file that was generated from the command above, don't include the texts from thing/channels.xml or thing/generic.thing.xml - @wborn is this perhaps a bug in the generate-default-translations maven plugin?

[lolodomo]

As there is only one translation file for the German translation with only 2 entries, I think it can be ignored. The i18n tool should simply be run to produce the default properties file.

[jimtng]

As there is only one translation file for the German translation with only 2 entries, I think it can be ignored. The i18n tool should simply be run to produce the default properties file.

I just updated my original post above with some more details

[wborn]

is this perhaps a bug in the generate-default-translations maven plugin?

Yes it seems to be an issue for multi bundle bindings like MQTT because /OH-INF/binding/binding.xml is missing. If you'd temporarily add it by copying it over and then run the plugin it works better. 🙂

[jimtng]

If you'd temporarily add it by copying it over and then run the plugin it works better.

Thanks, that worked. I will leave the binding.xml in there so future plugin runs can be done easily.

[jimtng]

@wborn, I hit a snag with the translations generator tool. I'm not sure what id to use inside the binding.xml file for org.openhab.binding.mqtt.homeassistant and all the other org.openhab.binding.mqtt.* sub-bundles.

Using id="mqtt" for homeassistant

This is great because it will pick up the contents of config/homeassistant-channel-config.xml and also:

# thing types

thing-type.mqtt.homeassistant.label = HomeAssistant MQTT Component

The problem is that it generates this at the top of the properties file which conflicts with/overrides the main bundle org.openhab.binding.mqtt:

# binding

binding.mqtt.name = MQTT Binding for Homeassistant Convention
binding.mqtt.description = Supports Homeassistant convention in MQTT

Setting id= to anything else doesn't seem to be picking up the correct texts.

I don't want to manually edit the properties file because I believe it needs to be easily regenerated again in the future.

Would you be able to look into handling this scenario in the generator plugin?

[wborn]

Would you be able to look into handling this scenario in the generator plugin?

I think it should be fixed with openhab/openhab-core#2748 @jimtng.