Class AbstractMachineTranslationProviderLanguageDirection

Implements an abstract base class for machine translation providers, and provides overridable default implementations for the most common properties and methods of ITranslationProviderLanguageDirection.

Inheritance

Object

AbstractMachineTranslationProviderLanguageDirection

Implements

ISubsegmentTranslationMemoryLanguageDirection

ITranslationProviderLanguageDirection

Inherited Members

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Namespace: Sdl.LanguagePlatform.TranslationMemoryApi

Assembly: Sdl.LanguagePlatform.TranslationMemoryApi.dll

Syntax

public abstract class AbstractMachineTranslationProviderLanguageDirection : ISubsegmentTranslationMemoryLanguageDirection, ITranslationProviderLanguageDirection

Constructors

AbstractMachineTranslationProviderLanguageDirection(AbstractMachineTranslationProvider, LanguagePair)

Constructor.

Declaration

protected AbstractMachineTranslationProviderLanguageDirection(AbstractMachineTranslationProvider translationProvider, LanguagePair languageDirection)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
AbstractMachineTranslationProvider	translationProvider	The machine translation provider to which this language direction belongs.
LanguagePair	languageDirection	The language direction.

Properties

CanReverseLanguageDirection

See CanReverseLanguageDirection. The default implementation returns false.

Declaration

public virtual bool CanReverseLanguageDirection { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
Boolean

LanguageDirection

Gets the current language direction of this instance.

Declaration

public LanguagePair LanguageDirection { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
LanguagePair

SourceLanguage

Gets the source language.

Declaration

public CultureCode SourceLanguage { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
CultureCode

SourceLanguageCode

Gets the source language code.

Declaration

public string SourceLanguageCode { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
String

TargetLanguage

Gets the target language.

Declaration

public CultureCode TargetLanguage { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
CultureCode

TargetLanguageCode

Gets the target language code.

Declaration

public string TargetLanguageCode { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
String

TranslationProvider

The translation provider to which this language direction belongs.

Declaration

public ITranslationProvider TranslationProvider { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
ITranslationProvider

Methods

AddOrUpdateTranslationUnits(TranslationUnit[], Int32[], ImportSettings)

See AddOrUpdateTranslationUnits(TranslationUnit[], Int32[], ImportSettings). The default implementation simply returns null.

Declaration

public virtual ImportResult[] AddOrUpdateTranslationUnits(TranslationUnit[] translationUnits, int[] previousTranslationHashes, ImportSettings settings)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
TranslationUnit[]	translationUnits
Int32[]	previousTranslationHashes
ImportSettings	settings

Returns

Type	Description
ImportResult[]

AddOrUpdateTranslationUnitsMasked(TranslationUnit[], Int32[], ImportSettings, Boolean[])

See AddOrUpdateTranslationUnitsMasked(TranslationUnit[], Int32[], ImportSettings, Boolean[]). The default implementation simply returns null.

Declaration

public virtual ImportResult[] AddOrUpdateTranslationUnitsMasked(TranslationUnit[] translationUnits, int[] previousTranslationHashes, ImportSettings settings, bool[] mask)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
TranslationUnit[]	translationUnits
Int32[]	previousTranslationHashes
ImportSettings	settings
Boolean[]	mask

Returns

Type	Description
ImportResult[]

AddTranslationUnit(TranslationUnit, ImportSettings)

See AddTranslationUnit(TranslationUnit, ImportSettings). The default implementation simply returns null.

Declaration

public virtual ImportResult AddTranslationUnit(TranslationUnit translationUnit, ImportSettings settings)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
TranslationUnit	translationUnit
ImportSettings	settings

Returns

Type	Description
ImportResult

AddTranslationUnits(TranslationUnit[], ImportSettings)

See AddTranslationUnits(TranslationUnit[], ImportSettings). The default implementation simply returns null.

Declaration

public virtual ImportResult[] AddTranslationUnits(TranslationUnit[] translationUnits, ImportSettings settings)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
TranslationUnit[]	translationUnits
ImportSettings	settings

Returns

Type	Description
ImportResult[]

AddTranslationUnitsMasked(TranslationUnit[], ImportSettings, Boolean[])

See AddTranslationUnitsMasked(TranslationUnit[], ImportSettings, Boolean[]). The default implementation simply returns null.

Declaration

public virtual ImportResult[] AddTranslationUnitsMasked(TranslationUnit[] translationUnits, ImportSettings settings, bool[] mask)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
TranslationUnit[]	translationUnits
ImportSettings	settings
Boolean[]	mask

Returns

Type	Description
ImportResult[]

CheckSettings(SearchSettings)

Verifies that the search settings are correct, and throws an exception if not. The default implementation will check on null, and whether the search mode is consistent with an MT provider.

Declaration

protected virtual void CheckSettings(SearchSettings settings)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SearchSettings	settings

CreateSearchResult(Segment, Segment)

Creates a search result from a pair of source and target language segments.

Declaration

protected virtual SearchResult CreateSearchResult(Segment searchSegment, Segment translation)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
Segment	searchSegment	The search (source) segment
Segment	translation	The result (target) segment

Returns

Type	Description
SearchResult	A new search result, which contains a duplicate of the source segment, and the translation segment. The origin is set to MachineTranslation.

CreateSearchResultFromTranslation(Segment, Segment)

Creates a result from the given source and translation segments.

Declaration

protected virtual SearchResults CreateSearchResultFromTranslation(Segment searchSegment, Segment translation)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
Segment	searchSegment	The source segment for a which the translation was requested.
Segment	translation	The translated segment.

Returns

Type	Description
SearchResults	A SearchResults object representing the result of the translation.

CreateSearchResultsFromTranslations(IList<Segment>, IList<Segment>)

Creates search results for the specified list of source segments and their translations.

Declaration

protected virtual IList<SearchResults> CreateSearchResultsFromTranslations(IList<Segment> searchSegments, IList<Segment> translations)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
IList<Segment>	searchSegments	The source segments that have been translated.
IList<Segment>	translations	The translations for the search segments.

Returns

Type	Description
IList<SearchResults>	A list of SearchResults objects representing the results of the translation.

SearchMultipleSegmentsInternal(SearchSettings, IList<Segment>)

Obtains the translation for a set of segments from the machine translation service and returns it in the TranslationProposal field of a SearchResults collection. Obtaining the translation should, but does not have to, result in only a single server round-trip.

This method is abstract and must be implemented by derived classes.

To create a search result from a segment, you can use CreateSearchResult(Segment, Segment).

Declaration

protected abstract IList<SearchResults> SearchMultipleSegmentsInternal(SearchSettings settings, IList<Segment> segments)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SearchSettings	settings	The search settings to apply
IList<Segment>	segments	The segments to translate (must not be null)

Returns

Type	Description
IList<SearchResults>	A collection of SearchResults data structures if the translation was successful, and null otherwise.

SearchSegment(SearchSettings, Segment)

See SearchSegment(SearchSettings, Segment). The default implementation validates the settings and then call SearchSingleSegmentInternal(SearchSettings, Segment) to obtain the result.

Declaration

public virtual SearchResults SearchSegment(SearchSettings settings, Segment segment)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SearchSettings	settings
Segment	segment

Returns

Type	Description
SearchResults

SearchSegment(SearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition, Segment)

See SearchSegment(SearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition, Segment). The default implementation simply returns null.

Declaration

public virtual SegmentAndSubsegmentSearchResults SearchSegment(SearchSettings settings, SubsegmentSearchSettings subsegmentSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition condition, Segment segment)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SearchSettings	settings
SubsegmentSearchSettings	subsegmentSettings
SubsegmentSearchCondition	condition
Segment	segment

Returns

Type	Description
SegmentAndSubsegmentSearchResults

SearchSegments(SearchSettings, Segment[])

See SearchSegments(SearchSettings, Segment[]). The default implementation validates the settings and then call SearchMultipleSegmentsInternal(SearchSettings, IList<Segment>) to obtain the result.

Declaration

public virtual SearchResults[] SearchSegments(SearchSettings settings, Segment[] segments)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SearchSettings	settings
Segment[]	segments

Returns

Type	Description
SearchResults[]

SearchSegments(SearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition, Segment[])

See SearchSegments(SearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition, Segment[]). The default implementation simply returns null.

Declaration

public virtual SegmentAndSubsegmentSearchResults[] SearchSegments(SearchSettings settings, SubsegmentSearchSettings subsegmentSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition condition, Segment[] segments)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SearchSettings	settings
SubsegmentSearchSettings	subsegmentSettings
SubsegmentSearchCondition	condition
Segment[]	segments

Returns

Type	Description
SegmentAndSubsegmentSearchResults[]

SearchSegmentsMasked(SearchSettings, Segment[], Boolean[])

See SearchSegmentsMasked(SearchSettings, Segment[], Boolean[]). The default implementation collects the non-masked segments and calls SearchMultipleSegmentsInternal(SearchSettings, IList<Segment>) to obtain the result.

Declaration

public virtual SearchResults[] SearchSegmentsMasked(SearchSettings settings, Segment[] segments, bool[] mask)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SearchSettings	settings
Segment[]	segments
Boolean[]	mask

Returns

Type	Description
SearchResults[]

SearchSegmentsMasked(SearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition, Segment[], Boolean[])

See SearchSegmentsMasked(SearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition, Segment[], Boolean[]). The default implementation simply returns null.

Declaration

public virtual SegmentAndSubsegmentSearchResults[] SearchSegmentsMasked(SearchSettings settings, SubsegmentSearchSettings subsegmentSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition condition, Segment[] segments, bool[] mask)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SearchSettings	settings
SubsegmentSearchSettings	subsegmentSettings
SubsegmentSearchCondition	condition
Segment[]	segments
Boolean[]	mask

Returns

Type	Description
SegmentAndSubsegmentSearchResults[]

SearchSingleSegmentInternal(SearchSettings, Segment)

Obtains the translation for a single segment from the machine translation service and returns it in the TranslationProposal field of a SearchResults. Obtaining the translation may be through a round-trip to the server.

This method is abstract and must be implemented by derived classes.

To create a search result from a segment, you can use CreateSearchResult(Segment, Segment).

Declaration

protected abstract SearchResults SearchSingleSegmentInternal(SearchSettings settings, Segment segment)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SearchSettings	settings	The search settings to apply
Segment	segment	The segment to translate (must not be null)

Returns

Type	Description
SearchResults	A SearchResults data structure if the translation was successful, and null otherwise.

SearchText(SearchSettings, String)

See SearchText(SearchSettings, String). The default implementation creates a new segment from the provided segment and calls SearchSingleSegmentInternal(SearchSettings, Segment) to obtain the result.

Declaration

public virtual SearchResults SearchText(SearchSettings settings, string segment)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SearchSettings	settings
String	segment

Returns

Type	Description
SearchResults

SearchTranslationUnit(SearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition, TranslationUnit)

See SearchTranslationUnit(SearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition, TranslationUnit). The default implementation simply returns null.

Declaration

public virtual SegmentAndSubsegmentSearchResults SearchTranslationUnit(SearchSettings settings, SubsegmentSearchSettings subsegmentSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition condition, TranslationUnit translationUnit)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SearchSettings	settings
SubsegmentSearchSettings	subsegmentSettings
SubsegmentSearchCondition	condition
TranslationUnit	translationUnit

Returns

Type	Description
SegmentAndSubsegmentSearchResults

SearchTranslationUnit(SearchSettings, TranslationUnit)

See SearchTranslationUnit(SearchSettings, TranslationUnit). The default implementation returns SearchSegment(SearchSettings, Segment), called for the source segment of translationUnit.

Note that a result is computed and returned although SupportsSearchForTranslationUnits is false by default.

Declaration

public virtual SearchResults SearchTranslationUnit(SearchSettings settings, TranslationUnit translationUnit)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SearchSettings	settings
TranslationUnit	translationUnit

Returns

Type	Description
SearchResults

SearchTranslationUnits(SearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition, TranslationUnit[])

See SearchTranslationUnits(SearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition, TranslationUnit[]). The default implementation simply returns null.

Declaration

public virtual SegmentAndSubsegmentSearchResults[] SearchTranslationUnits(SearchSettings settings, SubsegmentSearchSettings subsegmentSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition condition, TranslationUnit[] translationUnits)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SearchSettings	settings
SubsegmentSearchSettings	subsegmentSettings
SubsegmentSearchCondition	condition
TranslationUnit[]	translationUnits

Returns

Type	Description
SegmentAndSubsegmentSearchResults[]

SearchTranslationUnits(SearchSettings, TranslationUnit[])

See SearchTranslationUnits(SearchSettings, TranslationUnit[]). The default implementation collects the source segment of the provided translation units and then calls SearchSegments(SearchSettings, Segment[]) to obtain the result.

Declaration

public virtual SearchResults[] SearchTranslationUnits(SearchSettings settings, TranslationUnit[] translationUnits)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SearchSettings	settings
TranslationUnit[]	translationUnits

Returns

Type	Description
SearchResults[]

SearchTranslationUnitsMasked(SearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition, TranslationUnit[], Boolean[])

See SearchTranslationUnitsMasked(SearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition, TranslationUnit[], Boolean[]). The default implementation simply returns null.

Declaration

public virtual SegmentAndSubsegmentSearchResults[] SearchTranslationUnitsMasked(SearchSettings settings, SubsegmentSearchSettings subsegmentSettings, SubsegmentSearchCondition condition, TranslationUnit[] translationUnits, bool[] mask)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SearchSettings	settings
SubsegmentSearchSettings	subsegmentSettings
SubsegmentSearchCondition	condition
TranslationUnit[]	translationUnits
Boolean[]	mask

Returns

Type	Description
SegmentAndSubsegmentSearchResults[]

SearchTranslationUnitsMasked(SearchSettings, TranslationUnit[], Boolean[])

See SearchTranslationUnitsMasked(SearchSettings, TranslationUnit[], Boolean[]). The default implementation collects the source segments of the translation units and then calls SearchSegmentsMasked(SearchSettings, Segment[], Boolean[]) to obtain the result.

Declaration

public virtual SearchResults[] SearchTranslationUnitsMasked(SearchSettings settings, TranslationUnit[] translationUnits, bool[] mask)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SearchSettings	settings
TranslationUnit[]	translationUnits
Boolean[]	mask

Returns

Type	Description
SearchResults[]

SubsegmentSearchSegment(SubsegmentSearchSettings, Segment)

See SubsegmentSearchSegment(SubsegmentSearchSettings, Segment). The default implementation simply returns null.

Declaration

public virtual SubsegmentSearchResultsCollection SubsegmentSearchSegment(SubsegmentSearchSettings settings, Segment segment)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SubsegmentSearchSettings	settings
Segment	segment

Returns

Type	Description
SubsegmentSearchResultsCollection

SubsegmentSearchSegments(SubsegmentSearchSettings, Segment[])

See SubsegmentSearchSegments(SubsegmentSearchSettings, Segment[]). The default implementation simply returns null.

Declaration

public virtual SubsegmentSearchResultsCollection[] SubsegmentSearchSegments(SubsegmentSearchSettings settings, Segment[] segments)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
SubsegmentSearchSettings	settings
Segment[]	segments

Returns

Type	Description
SubsegmentSearchResultsCollection[]

SupportedSubsegmentMatchTypes()

See SupportedSubsegmentMatchTypes(). The default implementation simply returns null.

Declaration

public virtual List<SubsegmentMatchType> SupportedSubsegmentMatchTypes()

Returns

Type	Description
List<SubsegmentMatchType>

Translate(Segment)

A convenience method which returns a single translation for the input segment, using default settings.

Declaration

public virtual Segment Translate(Segment segment)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
Segment	segment

Returns

Type	Description
Segment

Translate(String)

A convenience method which returns a single translation for the input string, using default settings.

Declaration

public virtual string Translate(string text)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
String	text

Returns

Type	Description
String

UpdateTranslationUnit(TranslationUnit)

See UpdateTranslationUnit(TranslationUnit). The default implementation simply returns null.

Declaration

public virtual ImportResult UpdateTranslationUnit(TranslationUnit translationUnit)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
TranslationUnit	translationUnit

Returns

Type	Description
ImportResult

UpdateTranslationUnits(TranslationUnit[])

See UpdateTranslationUnits(TranslationUnit[]). The default implementation simply returns null.

Declaration

public virtual ImportResult[] UpdateTranslationUnits(TranslationUnit[] translationUnits)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
TranslationUnit[]	translationUnits

Returns

Type	Description
ImportResult[]

Implements

ISubsegmentTranslationMemoryLanguageDirection

ITranslationProviderLanguageDirection