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+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+"use strict";
+
+var EXPORTED_SYMBOLS = ["GoogleTranslator"];
+
+const { PromiseUtils } = ChromeUtils.importESModule(
+ "resource://gre/modules/PromiseUtils.sys.mjs"
+);
+const { httpRequest } = ChromeUtils.importESModule(
+ "resource://gre/modules/Http.sys.mjs"
+);
+
+// The maximum amount of net data allowed per request on Google's API.
+const MAX_REQUEST_DATA = 5000; // XXX This is the Bing value
+
+// The maximum number of chunks allowed to be translated in a single
+// request.
+const MAX_REQUEST_CHUNKS = 128; // Undocumented, but the de facto upper limit.
+
+// Self-imposed limit of 15 requests. This means that a page that would need
+// to be broken in more than 15 requests won't be fully translated.
+// The maximum amount of data that we will translate for a single page
+// is MAX_REQUESTS * MAX_REQUEST_DATA.
+const MAX_REQUESTS = 15;
+
+const URL = "https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2";
+
+/**
+ * Translates a webpage using Google's Translation API.
+ *
+ * @param translationDocument The TranslationDocument object that represents
+ * the webpage to be translated
+ * @param sourceLanguage The source language of the document
+ * @param targetLanguage The target language for the translation
+ *
+ * @returns {Promise} A promise that will resolve when the translation
+ * task is finished.
+ */
+var GoogleTranslator = function (
+ translationDocument,
+ sourceLanguage,
+ targetLanguage
+) {
+ this.translationDocument = translationDocument;
+ this.sourceLanguage = sourceLanguage;
+ this.targetLanguage = targetLanguage;
+ this._pendingRequests = 0;
+ this._partialSuccess = false;
+ this._translatedCharacterCount = 0;
+};
+
+GoogleTranslator.prototype = {
+ /**
+ * Performs the translation, splitting the document into several chunks
+ * respecting the data limits of the API.
+ *
+ * @returns {Promise} A promise that will resolve when the translation
+ * task is finished.
+ */
+ async translate() {
+ let currentIndex = 0;
+ this._onFinishedDeferred = PromiseUtils.defer();
+
+ // Let's split the document into various requests to be sent to
+ // Google's Translation API.
+ for (let requestCount = 0; requestCount < MAX_REQUESTS; requestCount++) {
+ // Generating the text for each request can be expensive, so
+ // let's take the opportunity of the chunkification process to
+ // allow for the event loop to attend other pending events
+ // before we continue.
+ await new Promise(resolve => Services.tm.dispatchToMainThread(resolve));
+
+ // Determine the data for the next request.
+ let request = this._generateNextTranslationRequest(currentIndex);
+
+ // Create a real request to the server, and put it on the
+ // pending requests list.
+ let googleRequest = new GoogleRequest(
+ request.data,
+ this.sourceLanguage,
+ this.targetLanguage
+ );
+ this._pendingRequests++;
+ googleRequest
+ .fireRequest()
+ .then(this._chunkCompleted.bind(this), this._chunkFailed.bind(this));
+
+ currentIndex = request.lastIndex;
+ if (request.finished) {
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return this._onFinishedDeferred.promise;
+ },
+
+ /**
+ * Function called when a request sent to the server completed successfully.
+ * This function handles calling the function to parse the result and the
+ * function to resolve the promise returned by the public `translate()`
+ * method when there's no pending request left.
+ *
+ * @param request The GoogleRequest sent to the server.
+ */
+ _chunkCompleted(googleRequest) {
+ if (this._parseChunkResult(googleRequest)) {
+ this._partialSuccess = true;
+ // Count the number of characters successfully translated.
+ this._translatedCharacterCount += googleRequest.characterCount;
+ }
+
+ this._checkIfFinished();
+ },
+
+ /**
+ * Function called when a request sent to the server has failed.
+ * This function handles deciding if the error is transient or means the
+ * service is unavailable (zero balance on the key or request credentials are
+ * not in an active state) and calling the function to resolve the promise
+ * returned by the public `translate()` method when there's no pending.
+ * request left.
+ *
+ * @param aError [optional] The XHR object of the request that failed.
+ */
+ _chunkFailed(aError) {
+ this._checkIfFinished();
+ },
+
+ /**
+ * Function called when a request sent to the server has completed.
+ * This function handles resolving the promise
+ * returned by the public `translate()` method when all chunks are completed.
+ */
+ _checkIfFinished() {
+ // Check if all pending requests have been
+ // completed and then resolves the promise.
+ // If at least one chunk was successful, the
+ // promise will be resolved positively which will
+ // display the "Success" state for the infobar. Otherwise,
+ // the "Error" state will appear.
+ if (--this._pendingRequests == 0) {
+ if (this._partialSuccess) {
+ this._onFinishedDeferred.resolve({
+ characterCount: this._translatedCharacterCount,
+ });
+ } else {
+ this._onFinishedDeferred.reject("failure");
+ }
+ }
+ },
+
+ /**
+ * This function parses the result returned by Bing's Http.svc API,
+ * which is a XML file that contains a number of elements. To our
+ * particular interest, the only part of the response that matters
+ * are the <TranslatedText> nodes, which contains the resulting
+ * items that were sent to be translated.
+ *
+ * @param request The request sent to the server.
+ * @returns boolean True if parsing of this chunk was successful.
+ */
+ _parseChunkResult(googleRequest) {
+ let results;
+ try {
+ let response = googleRequest.networkRequest.response;
+ results = JSON.parse(response).data.translations;
+ } catch (e) {
+ return false;
+ }
+ let len = results.length;
+ if (len != googleRequest.translationData.length) {
+ // This should never happen, but if the service returns a different number
+ // of items (from the number of items submitted), we can't use this chunk
+ // because all items would be paired incorrectly.
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ let error = false;
+ for (let i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+ try {
+ let result = results[i].translatedText;
+ let root = googleRequest.translationData[i][0];
+ if (root.isSimpleRoot && result.includes("&")) {
+ // If the result contains HTML entities, we need to convert them as
+ // simple roots expect a plain text result.
+ let doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(result, "text/html");
+ result = doc.body.firstChild.nodeValue;
+ }
+ root.parseResult(result);
+ } catch (e) {
+ error = true;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return !error;
+ },
+
+ /**
+ * This function will determine what is the data to be used for
+ * the Nth request we are generating, based on the input params.
+ *
+ * @param startIndex What is the index, in the roots list, that the
+ * chunk should start.
+ */
+ _generateNextTranslationRequest(startIndex) {
+ let currentDataSize = 0;
+ let currentChunks = 0;
+ let output = [];
+ let rootsList = this.translationDocument.roots;
+
+ for (let i = startIndex; i < rootsList.length; i++) {
+ let root = rootsList[i];
+ let text = this.translationDocument.generateTextForItem(root);
+ if (!text) {
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ let newCurSize = currentDataSize + text.length;
+ let newChunks = currentChunks + 1;
+
+ if (newCurSize > MAX_REQUEST_DATA || newChunks > MAX_REQUEST_CHUNKS) {
+ // If we've reached the API limits, let's stop accumulating data
+ // for this request and return. We return information useful for
+ // the caller to pass back on the next call, so that the function
+ // can keep working from where it stopped.
+ return {
+ data: output,
+ finished: false,
+ lastIndex: i,
+ };
+ }
+
+ currentDataSize = newCurSize;
+ currentChunks = newChunks;
+ output.push([root, text]);
+ }
+
+ return {
+ data: output,
+ finished: true,
+ lastIndex: 0,
+ };
+ },
+};
+
+/**
+ * Represents a request (for 1 chunk) sent off to Google's service.
+ *
+ * @params translationData The data to be used for this translation,
+ * generated by the generateNextTranslationRequest...
+ * function.
+ * @param sourceLanguage The source language of the document.
+ * @param targetLanguage The target language for the translation.
+ *
+ */
+function GoogleRequest(translationData, sourceLanguage, targetLanguage) {
+ this.translationData = translationData;
+ this.sourceLanguage = sourceLanguage;
+ this.targetLanguage = targetLanguage;
+ this.characterCount = 0;
+}
+
+GoogleRequest.prototype = {
+ /**
+ * Initiates the request
+ */
+ fireRequest() {
+ let key =
+ Services.cpmm.sharedData.get("translationKey") ||
+ Services.prefs.getStringPref("browser.translation.google.apiKey", "");
+ if (!key) {
+ return Promise.reject("no API key");
+ }
+
+ // Prepare the request body.
+ let postData = [
+ ["key", key],
+ ["source", this.sourceLanguage],
+ ["target", this.targetLanguage],
+ ];
+
+ for (let [, text] of this.translationData) {
+ postData.push(["q", text]);
+ this.characterCount += text.length;
+ }
+
+ // Set up request options.
+ return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+ let options = {
+ onLoad: (responseText, xhr) => {
+ resolve(this);
+ },
+ onError(e, responseText, xhr) {
+ reject(xhr);
+ },
+ postData,
+ };
+
+ // Fire the request.
+ this.networkRequest = httpRequest(URL, options);
+ });
+ },
+};