Multi-lingual sourcing

[m99coder]

First things first: Thanks for the renewed Shopify source plugin.

Since you are now using Shopify’s Bulk Operations API, I wonder if there will be support for different languages as there is for quite some time in the Storefront API with the translation header?

From GatsbyConf 2021, I learned there will be multi-lingual support. Is there any timeline worth sharing or ready to do so? Any proof-of-concept to get an idea of how you will integrate this very important feature. More and more e-commerce sites are at least bi-lingual.

All the best,
Marco

[sslotsky]

Thank you for the issue. We do indeed plan to support this. While our strategy hasn't been officially decided, the easiest way to support it is probably by retrieving translations from resources where applicable. Plugin users would specify which languages they need in the pluginOptions and a translatable resource would then have translation entries for each provided language.

Does that sound like something that could work for your case?

[m99coder]

Could you maybe elaborate a little bit on the pluginOptions part? It would help to see a tiny example (even if only pseudo-code). If there is a way to retrieve the translations fields for specific resource fields (as supported by Shopify), that would absolutely work in my case. As far as I know the Storefront API doesn’t yet support querying for translations. I could only make it work with the Admin API. Not sure if the Batch API supports them.

[sslotsky]

You would for example pass something like this into plugin options:

languages: ['fr']

Then perhaps we add something like this to our bulk query:

        fr_translations: translations(locale: "fr") {
          key,
          locale,
          value
        }

And now your resource has a field fr_translations with that translation data.

[ilbertt]

I guess this feature is not yet available right? Is there a workaround?

[ucimo]

I can't beleive this feature is so hard to implement with Gatsby and Shopify. Soooo much glofication on the internet for a software that dosn't offer a straight forward way to use a translations... smh

[m99coder]

@sslotsky Perfectly fine 👍

[DennisKraaijeveld]

Any progress on this? I thought this would be available after all this time

[RectoVersoDev]

https://www.gatsbyjs.com/resources/webinars/high-performance-localization-storyblok/

[AlexanderProd]

This is not about Shopify though, is it?

[RectoVersoDev]

I don't think so but there might be some interesting information 🤞

[Karlos137]

Hello @sslotsky , any progress on this? Is there an alternative that we can use meanwhile? Thank you.