EXCLUDED_APPLICATIONS settings

[hovi]

• Which version of Django are you using?: 5.0.4
• Which version of django-rosetta are you using?: 0.10.0
• Have you looked trough recent issues and checked this isn't a duplicate? I did!

I am trying to use this settings, but whatever I try, I see no effect. I see there are unit tests and they are working so everything seems fine.
I even literally tried:

ROSETTA_EXCLUDED_APPLICATIONS = INSTALLED_APPS

But whatever I do, I see in the list all the translation files of all the apps. Anything obvious I am doing wrong?

[mbi]

Yes, I agree that the way we currently find discover locale paths is too aggressive: we essentially try to find all possible locations for PO files using

1. Django's app catalog
2. by scanning the local project root and
3. looking in settings.LOCALE_PATHS.

We only exclude applications from the first list, but if for some reason your app also matches 2 or 3, we can't easily detect that.

Also, you might want to try using ROSETTA_EXCLUDED_PATHS instead, e.g.

ROSETTA_EXCLUDED_PATHS = ("/home/marco/Code/django-rosetta/testproject/locale",)

Will exclude this:

[hovi]

Thanks for reply.
In the end, I simply want only to translate my local apps and nothing else. Of course the best would be to have a boolean settings that allow me to filter that.

I read about EXCLUDED_PATHS, but the fact that it has to be absolute makes it much less usable.

Nonetheless, I don't see why EXCLUDED_APPS shouldn't work, any idea why it doesn't?

[mbi]

Nonetheless, I don't see why EXCLUDED_APPS shouldn't work, any idea why it doesn't?

Yes, as I mentioned above we look for catalogs by app (in which case the exclusion works) and by various other means (not necessarily by app) in which cases EXCLUDED_APPS doesn't have any effect.

The relevant bit of code is here: https://github.com/mbi/django-rosetta/blob/develop/rosetta/poutil.py#L33 if you'd like to take a closer look. Pull requests are as always welcome. 🙏

[hovi]

Thanks, and is this supposed to be expected behaviour?

Looking deeper into the code, I basically only want "project" po_filter:

django-rosetta/rosetta/views.py

Line 68 in c76d829

if po_filter not in {"all", "django", "third-party", "project"}:

I don't want people to see or translate third party or django apps at this point. We really translate only our frontend and don't need this. This would only confuse translators + it unnecessarily gives out sensitive information about project paths on the server.

What would you say to making this settings configurable? {"all", "django", "third-party", "project"}
If you are positive about it, what changes would that involve besides getting this from settings + changes in template?

Lastly, I was trying to run tests and play with it very slightly and some tests were failing, I haven't found any instructions on how to set it up, is there a doc? It may be some external component missing that I don't have installed, I really haven't looked much into that.