Interface ITranslationProvider

Represents a multi-lingual translation engine. This can for instance be a translation memory or machine translation engine.

Namespace: Sdl.LanguagePlatform.TranslationMemoryApi

Assembly: Sdl.LanguagePlatform.TranslationMemoryApi.dll

Syntax

public interface ITranslationProvider

Properties

IsReadOnly

Gets a flag which indicates whether the translation provider or its underlying storage are read-only. If this flag is true, no data can be deleted, updated, or added.

Declaration

bool IsReadOnly { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

Name

Gets the user-friendly name of this provider. It is not necessarily unique across the system.

Declaration

string Name { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.String

StatusInfo

Gets the status info for the provider.

Declaration

ProviderStatusInfo StatusInfo { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
ProviderStatusInfo

SupportsConcordanceSearch

Gets a flag which indicates whether the translation provider supports concordance search in the source or the target language. For more detailed information, see SupportsSourceConcordanceSearch and SupportsTargetConcordanceSearch.

Declaration

bool SupportsConcordanceSearch { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

SupportsDocumentSearches

Gets a flag which indicates whether the translation provider supports document searches and will take document (textual) context into account.

Declaration

bool SupportsDocumentSearches { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

SupportsFilters

Gets a flag which indicates whether the translation provider supports filters for text and attribute fields. If false, filters supplied in the search settings will be ignored.

Declaration

bool SupportsFilters { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

SupportsFuzzySearch

Gets a flag which indicates whether the translation provider supports fuzzy search. This value should be false if SupportsTranslation is false.

Declaration

bool SupportsFuzzySearch { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

SupportsMultipleResults

Gets a flag which indicates whether the engine may return multiple results for a search. If false, at most one result (and translation proposal) will be computed.

Declaration

bool SupportsMultipleResults { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

SupportsPenalties

Gets a flag which indicates whether the translation provider supports penalties of various types. If false, all penalties supplied in the search settings will be ignored.

Declaration

bool SupportsPenalties { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

SupportsPlaceables

Gets a flag which indicates whether the translation provider supports the detection and handling of placeables, and will return them as part of the search result.

Declaration

bool SupportsPlaceables { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

SupportsScoring

Gets a flag which indicates whether the translation provider produces scored results in the rank between [minScore, 100]. If false, no scores will be computed.

Declaration

bool SupportsScoring { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

SupportsSearchForTranslationUnits

Gets a flag which indicates whether the translation provider supports searching for bilingual input TUs (i.e. the SearchTranslationUnit method group). If false, the service only supports searching for simple (monolingual) segments.

Declaration

bool SupportsSearchForTranslationUnits { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

SupportsSourceConcordanceSearch

Gets a flag which indicates whether the translation provider supports concordance search in the source language.

Declaration

bool SupportsSourceConcordanceSearch { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

SupportsStructureContext

Gets a flag which indicates whether the translation provider supports a structure context specification and will consider it for searches. If false, the structure context will be ignored.

Declaration

bool SupportsStructureContext { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

SupportsTaggedInput

Gets a flag which indicates whether or not the translation provider engine supports processing of tagged input and will return input tags in the translation proposals. If false, the engine may drop all tags from search segments, and may not return tags in the output.

Declaration

bool SupportsTaggedInput { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

SupportsTargetConcordanceSearch

Gets a flag which indicates whether the translation provider supports concordance search in the target language.

Declaration

bool SupportsTargetConcordanceSearch { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

SupportsTranslation

Gets a flag which indicates whether the translation provider supports translation search (exact and/or fuzzy search) and the generation of translation proposals. In most cases this flag will be true. If this value is false, the translation provider can not be used to request translations, but can still be used to search for concordance matches, if SupportsConcordanceSearch is true.

Declaration

bool SupportsTranslation { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

SupportsUpdate

Gets a flag which indicates whether the translation provider supports updating/adding of translation units. If false, all update/add methods will return without effect. Note that implementations should not throw exceptions for unsupported methods.

Declaration

bool SupportsUpdate { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

SupportsWordCounts

Gets a flag which indicates whether the translation provider will compute and return word counts in searches.

Declaration

bool SupportsWordCounts { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean

TranslationMethod

Gets the primary method how the translation provider generates translations.

Declaration

TranslationMethod TranslationMethod { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
TranslationMethod

Uri

Gets a URI which uniquely identifies this translation provider.

Declaration

Uri Uri { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Uri

Methods

GetLanguageDirection(LanguagePair)

Gets a translation provider for the specified language direction.

Declaration

ITranslationProviderLanguageDirection GetLanguageDirection(LanguagePair languageDirection)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
LanguagePair	languageDirection	The language direction.

Returns

Type	Description
ITranslationProviderLanguageDirection	The language direction matching the given source and target language.

LoadState(String)

Loads previously serialized state information into this translation provider instance.

Declaration

void LoadState(string translationProviderState)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	translationProviderState	A string representing the state of translation provider that was previously saved using SerializeState().

Remarks

The format of this string can be decided upon by the translation provider implementation.

RefreshStatusInfo()

Ensures that the provider's status information (StatusInfo) is refreshed, in case it is cached.

Declaration

void RefreshStatusInfo()

SerializeState()

Serializes any meaningful state information for this translation provider that can be stored in projects and sent around the supply chain.

Declaration

string SerializeState()

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	A string representing the state of this translation provider that can later be passed into the LoadState(String) method to restore the state after creating a new translation provider.

Remarks

The format of this string can be decided upon by the translation provider implementation.

SupportsLanguageDirection(LanguagePair)

Checks whether this translation provider supports the specified language direction.

Declaration

bool SupportsLanguageDirection(LanguagePair languageDirection)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
LanguagePair	languageDirection	The language direction.

Returns

Type	Description
System.Boolean	True if the specified language direction is supported.