Feature request: Support --update-values argument for save-missing command about locize-cli

[adrai]

The save-missing command, as the name implies, only saves the missing keys.
It is using the https://docs.locize.com/integration/api#missing-translations endpoint so this will not be able to update an existing key.

If you need to update existing keys, why not using the sync command?

[michael-mao]

Thanks for the response. The reason we were avoiding using the sync is because it was overwriting translations. What we ended up doing is downloading the existing translations from Locize first and merging any news keys and values in before uploading again.

One thing we're unclear about is the --update-values argument for the sync command. In the docs it says

if you change the values of existing keys in the reference language, it will not change them in locize (to change the existing values you have to change it directly in locize or use the --update-values true argument)

however we noticed values still get updated on Locize without the argument set to true. Can you clarify how this argument behaves?

[adrai]

I suspect something strange in your directory structure combined with the sync arguments...
Can you try in a clean directory first?
and when you update the values use the —dry true option to see how it would change.

[michael-mao]

What we found is that if the value for a key is an empty string on Locize the sync command will update the value regardless of the --update-values argument. Only when there is a non empty value will the --update-values have any effect, is that accurate?

[adrai]

is this setting enabled? #41 (comment)

[michael-mao]

Enabling that setting worked, thank you.

I didn't see that setting mentioned in the README, it may be helpful to add a note about it for others.