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[
{
"namespace": "manifest",
"types": [
{
"$extend": "WebExtensionManifest",
"properties": {
"default_locale": {
"type": "string",
"optional": "true"
},
"l10n_resources": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"optional": true,
"privileged": true
}
}
}
]
},
{
"namespace": "i18n",
"allowedContexts": ["content", "devtools"],
"defaultContexts": ["content", "devtools"],
"description": "Use the <code>browser.i18n</code> infrastructure to implement internationalization across your whole app or extension.",
"types": [
{
"id": "LanguageCode",
"type": "string",
"description": "An ISO language code such as <code>en</code> or <code>fr</code>. For a complete list of languages supported by this method, see <a href='http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/cld/languages/internal/languages.cc'>kLanguageInfoTable</a>. For an unknown language, <code>und</code> will be returned, which means that [percentage] of the text is unknown to CLD"
}
],
"functions": [
{
"name": "getAcceptLanguages",
"type": "function",
"description": "Gets the accept-languages of the browser. This is different from the locale used by the browser; to get the locale, use $(ref:i18n.getUILanguage).",
"async": "callback",
"parameters": [
{
"type": "function",
"name": "callback",
"parameters": [
{
"name": "languages",
"type": "array",
"items": { "$ref": "LanguageCode" },
"description": "Array of LanguageCode"
}
]
}
]
},
{
"name": "getMessage",
"type": "function",
"description": "Gets the localized string for the specified message. If the message is missing, this method returns an empty string (''). If the format of the <code>getMessage()</code> call is wrong — for example, <em>messageName</em> is not a string or the <em>substitutions</em> array has more than 9 elements — this method returns <code>undefined</code>.",
"parameters": [
{
"type": "string",
"name": "messageName",
"description": "The name of the message, as specified in the <code>$(topic:i18n-messages)[messages.json]</code> file."
},
{
"type": "any",
"name": "substitutions",
"optional": true,
"description": "Substitution strings, if the message requires any."
}
],
"returns": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Message localized for current locale."
}
},
{
"name": "getUILanguage",
"type": "function",
"description": "Gets the browser UI language of the browser. This is different from $(ref:i18n.getAcceptLanguages) which returns the preferred user languages.",
"parameters": [],
"returns": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The browser UI language code such as en-US or fr-FR."
}
},
{
"name": "detectLanguage",
"type": "function",
"description": "Detects the language of the provided text using CLD.",
"async": "callback",
"parameters": [
{
"type": "string",
"name": "text",
"description": "User input string to be translated."
},
{
"type": "function",
"name": "callback",
"parameters": [
{
"type": "object",
"name": "result",
"description": "LanguageDetectionResult object that holds detected langugae reliability and array of DetectedLanguage",
"properties": {
"isReliable": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "CLD detected language reliability"
},
"languages": {
"type": "array",
"description": "array of detectedLanguage",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"description": "DetectedLanguage object that holds detected ISO language code and its percentage in the input string",
"properties": {
"language": {
"$ref": "LanguageCode"
},
"percentage": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "The percentage of the detected language"
}
}
}
}
}
}
]
}
]
}
],
"events": []
}
]