Please consider providing a small utility to work with dart strings

[neiljaywarner]

Please consider lettign us use this outside of arb/csv files, but instead with strings/text widgets.

for example, suppose we are using
Text('hi');
and for whatever reason we are not quite ready to use arb type localization and/or for whatever reason are not using a localization library/package that works quite the same way.

Could we please have the option to use 'hi'.psuedo() and translate to a psuedo string, perhaps with sane defaults for first pass, then configurable just like your yaml file for second pass?
thanks

[defuncart]

Hi @neiljaywarner, this is a use case I never actually thought of and haven't needed myself. In feature/call-pseudo-directly-on-strings I've put together a very quick & dirty POC.

If you dependent on flutter_pseudolocalizor as a dependency (as opposed to dev_dependency as normal) from git

flutter_pseudolocalizor:
    git:
      url: https://github.com/defuncart/flutter_pseudolocalizor
      ref: feature/call-pseudo-directly-on-strings

you can set set the settings using

FlutterPseudolocalizor.settings = const FlutterPseudolocalizorSettings(
      languageToGenerate: SupportedLanguage.de,
      useBrackets: false,
      textExpansionRate: 1,
);

and use as follows

'Hello World'.pseudo()

As mentioned, this is very quick & dirty, nevertheless it works and can be experimented on :)

Let me know what you think. There is no EDD on when this would ship on pub: the existing api will need to be updated, however the POC branch should work just fine.

Full Example

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter_pseudolocalizor/flutter_pseudolocalizor.dart';

void main() {
FlutterPseudolocalizor.settings = const FlutterPseudolocalizorSettings(
  languageToGenerate: SupportedLanguage.de,
  useBrackets: false,
  textExpansionRate: 1,
);

runApp(const MyApp());
}

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
const MyApp({Key? key}) : super(key: key);

@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return MaterialApp(
    home: Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(),
      body: Center(
        child: Text(
          'Hello World'.pseudo(),
        ),
      ),
    ),
  );
}
}