Marketplace/LangPacks

The Marketplace has been placed into maintenance mode. It is no longer under active development. You can read complete details here.

Overview

Language packs are translations for Gaia. Rather than ship and update all the localisations in each phone version, language packs allow updates to the localisation as they become available.

These will be used in FxOS 2.2.

Marketplace design notes

• Was agreed should not be just bolted onto the webapp model since many parts of it different eg:
  • No review step
  • No developer pages

Examples

• An example language pack: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8544837
• Example of installing: https://bug1107346.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8537621

How to upload langpacks on Marketplace

You'll need a Marketplace account and the appropriate permissions.

• Create an account on https://marketplace.firefox.com/developers/ and accept the terms and conditions: https://marketplace.firefox.com/developers/terms
• Ask someone with admin rights to put your user in the LangPacks Administrators group.
• Generate an API key and secret from https://marketplace.firefox.com/developers/api
• Start using the API!

API Example using curling

Setup

$ pip install curling
$ echo '{"marketplace.firefox.com": {"key": "<replace-by-your-api-key>", "secret": "<replace-by-your-api-secret>"}}' > ~/.curling

Validate a langpack

$ DATA=$( base64 -w 0 "/tmp/langpack.zip" )
$ curling -X POST -d '@-' https://marketplace.firefox.com/api/v2/apps/validation/ <<CURL_DATA
{"upload": {"type": "application/zip", "name": "langpack.zip", "data": "$DATA"}}
CURL_DATA

Check the validation result

$ curling https://marketplace.firefox.com/api/v2/apps/validation/<paste-validation-id-from-previous-line-here>/

Create a langpack from the validation result (once validation result says valid=true and processed=true)

$ curling -X POST -d '{"upload": "<paste-validation-id-from-previous-line-here>"}' https://marketplace.firefox.com/api/v2/langpacks/

Activate the langpack

Note: langpack uuid is different from the validation id, even though both are 32-chars hexadecimal strings.

$ curling -X PATCH -d '{"active": true}' https://marketplace.firefox.com/api/v2/langpacks/<paste-langpack-uuid-from-previous-line-here>/

Double-check that the langpack is now active

$ curling https://marketplace.firefox.com/api/v2/langpacks/<paste-langpack-uuid-from-previous-line-here>/

Updating an existing langpack

Validate a langpack like above, then:

$ curling -X PUT -d '{"upload": "<paste-validation-id-from-previous-line-here>"}' https://marketplace.firefox.com/api/v2/langpacks/<paste-langpack-uuid-here>/

Note: the version field in your manifest needs to be different.

Bugs

Tracking bug: 1105530.

Bugzilla query error

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