AWS JSON TRANSLATOR CLI

AWS JSON TRANSLATOR CLI is a command line application to translate JSON files using AWS Translate.

Table of contents

• 🔧 Features
• 💻 Usage
• 👩‍💻 Credits and used technologies
• 💼 License

🔧 Features

• 📄 Deep and non-deep JSON Files (support for JSON Arrays too)
• 👔 Support for formality and profanity (to view supported languages see the links below)
• 🔑 Easy configuration of keys and region with a "set-configuration" command.
• 📃 Translate without altering the structure.

💻 Usage

Create an IAM account with AWS Translation:

• Login on AWS console and navigate to IAM panel
• Click on Users tab
• Click on Add User button
• Follow the steps and add a User with access to the Translation API only
• Save the access key and the secret in a secure place

Available regions: AWS Regions documentation With both keys and region, we are ready to do the configuration.

Running configuration

1. Configure Access Key, Secret Key and Region using "set-configuration" command specifying parameters.

   • --awsAccessKey. OPTIONAL. Your AWS Access Key from IAM User.
   • --awsSecretKey. OPTIONAL. Your AWS Secret Key from IAM User.
   • --awsRegion. OPTIONAL. Your AWS Region.

All parameters are optional, so you can set individually each property if you want.

Run .exe

.\aws-json-translator.exe set-configuration --awsAccessKey exampleAccessKey --awsSecretKey exampleSecretKey --awsRegion eu-west-3

Run .jar

java -jar aws-json-translator.jar set-configuration --awsAccessKey exampleAccessKey --awsSecretKey exampleSecretKey --awsRegion eu-west-3

2. Translate JSON file using "translate-json" command specifying required parameters.

   • -sl or --sourceLanguage. REQUIRED. Source language of JSON in ISO 3166 alpha-2 code.
   • -tl or --targetLanguage. REQUIRED. Target language you want to translate to in ISO 3166 alpha-2 code.
   • -sf or --sourceFile. REQUIRED. Source file containing JSON to translate.
   • --enableProfanityFilter. OPTIONAL. Enable profanity filter. (Empty parameter)
   • --formality. OPTIONAL. Formality level. Possible values: formal, informal. Default: formal
   • --customTerminology. OPTIONAL. Custom terminology name list separated by comma.

To use custom terminology, you have to create a custom terminology in Amazon Translate and then put the name in --customTerminology parameter. For more information, see Amazon Translate Custom Terminology.

Basic usage of "translate-json"

Run .exe

.\aws-json-translator.exe translate-json -sf example.json -sl es -tl en

Run .jar

java -jar aws-json-translator.jar translate-json -sf example.json -sl es -tl en

This command will translate the file example.json from Spanish to English

Extended usage of "translate-json"

Run .exe

.\aws-json-translator.exe translate-json --sourceFile example.json --sourceLanguage es --targetLanguage en --formality formal --enableProfanityFilter --customTerminology list1,list2

Run .jar

java -jar aws-json-translator.jar translate-json --sourceFile example.json --sourceLanguage es --targetLanguage en --formality formal --enableProfanityFilter --customTerminology list1,list2

This command will translate the file example.json from Spanish to English with formality formal, with enabled profanity filter and a list of custom terminologies

3. Done! Your translated JSON is on .\output folder with the target language code as name.

👩‍💻 Credits and used technologies

• Java 11
• Gradle
• PicoCLI
• Launch4J
• Apache Commons IO
• JSON In Java
• AWS Translate Java SDK
• Github Copilot
• Consola icon by Icons8
• Table of contents generated with markdown-toc

💼 License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2022 Marc Guillem Dev

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