I18n Store piece: Translate texts in flows

I want to add a piece to manage locally i18n translations. The use case is basically handling flows for users with languages preferences: we can react sending mail/sms/messages in the user’s preferred language.

Alternatives

• Using plain store is a lot of get/set, and then write custom script to handle interpolation. Not perfect as pluralization won’t work nicely.

• Using an external service: why not, but overkill to use an external service to handle just a few lines of translations.

Solution proposed

A I18n Store would uses i18next (already installed) and expose three actions :

• Set configuration (project wide): allow upload of .yml or .json files, and i18n settings like interpolations delimiters and fallback language

• Translate: give a path, interpolation variables and a locale. Optionally ask to return objects to translate many strings at once

• Settings: get available locales, and previously set configuration

This way we can:

• loop over available locales if we talk to an external multi-lingual service that handles prefs.

• take translations string and interpolate with count variables that will handle pluralization

• use interpolation delimiter for the files you already have in whatever stack you use.

The implementation would use context.store with a Project Scope, in order to set translation in a flow and use it as much as you want.

Current state

I developed a first version of the piece here:

https://github.com/octree-gva/activepieces/tree/packages/octree/packages/pieces/community/i18n-store

And published on NPM here:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@octree/piece-i18n-store

I need feedback from the community if this piece is worth a PR in active pieces, :)
And if some people can try it and test, that would help the piece grow to a v1 faster

Thanks a lot, and have a great day!