Sync removes existing translations for keys in Locize about locize-cli

[adrai]

Can you share a bit more information?
How does the directory structure look like?
Some sample files... before and after...
arguments used in sync command... cli output... etc...

[michael-mao]

Thanks for the response, I will try to list out the exact workflow we're using below.

We extract strings to JSON files in a locales/ directory where the filename is the namespace we use in Locize, for example:

locales/
  en-US/
    test.json
  fr-FR/
    test.json

The JSON files would look something like below with keys mapped to empty string

{
  "Accepted": "",
  // more keys 
}

At this point we already have a translation on Locize for the "Accepted" key and just want to add new keys that have been tagged in the codebase.

We try to sync to Locize using the CLI

$ locize sync --api-key <api_key> --project-id <project_id> --format json --namespace test --path locales --reference-language-only false

output:

adding 59 keys in en-US/test...
removing 1 keys in fr-FR/test...
adding 58 keys in fr-FR/test...
syncing...
FINISHED

The result is that new keys are added but the translation we already had for the existing "Accepted" key on Locize is overwritten.

[adrai]

Ahh ok, I understand.
This is the expected behaviour. The sync command will synchronize locize with what you have locally. Your local directory is the master.

What you are looking for is something like a saveMissing feature via cli... right?
i.e. Just add new keys found via the i18next-scanner and not update and not delete anything, right?

[adrai]

For your use-case we just released a new cli version with a new command: save-missing
https://github.com/locize/locize-cli#push-missing-keys-to-locize-from-your-repository-or-any-other-local-directory

locize save-missing --api-key <api_key> --project-id <project_id> --format json --namespace test --path locales --reference-language-only false

[adrai]

I hope this is what you was looking for

[michael-mao]

That's great, thank you @adrai ! The save-missing functionality is what we're looking for

[adrai]

btw to preserve empty strings you may enable this option in your project’s settings: