Hi Stephen @stephenharris ,

I wasn't able to run the msgmerge from within the pot. Running it manually from the shell worked fine, but not from Grunt.

The patch below worked (with Node 0.12).

I am not sure, but it looked to me like async spawn wasn't working well under Windows, even with CygWin.

Check if you want to replace all execs with execSyncs. All works fast enough, so why do you need async?

Thank you!

            if (poFilePaths && options.msgmerge) {
                var execSync = require('child_process').execSync;

                poFilePaths.forEach(function (poFile) {
                    execSync('msgmerge -vU ' + poFile + ' ' + potFile);
                });

            }

Runnig grunt-pot on Windows with gettext-0.14.4 installed. Xgettext does not recognize --package-version and --package-name options.

Running "pot:files" (pot) task
Destination: lang/roots.pot
Warning: Command failed: xgettext: unrecognized option --package-name=roots
Try (null) --help for more information.
Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.

If I comment corresponding lines in pot.js file, task runs without errors.

This task doesn't seem to be a multitask. I'm new to Grunt but it seems Grunt sends different parameters when you have multiple tasks setup. For it to work properly as a multitask, the code at pot.js:87 should be changed to something like this:

    this.files[0].src.forEach(function(file) {
        if( !grunt.file.isDir( file ) ){
            inputFiles +=  " " + file;
        }
    });

If this alteration is made, the setup should change to something similar to the following :

pot: {
    first_task: {
        options: {
            text_domain: text_domain,
            dest: 'build/languages/',
            keywords: ['gettext', '__', '_e']
        },
        files: {
            src: ['build/**'],
            expand: true
        }
    }
}

Hi @stephenharris!

great plugin! I'm just having trouble updating .PO files. I set msgmerge: true but no update is happening.

GNU gettext tools are in my system (Windows 8.1) and in PATH.

I added some log messages to your "pot.js" file so I can trace if execution goes through your code... and it does! But exec( 'msgmerge -U ' + poFile + ' ' + potFile, function(error, stdout, stderr) {} ); seems to do nothing.

No error is thrown and the process finishes with an exit code of 0.

If I manually execute the command msgmerge -U fileNme.po fileName.pot from Win command line... it works, .PO files get updated.

Any idea what I'm missing??

Thank you very much!

I realize this question is probably about xgettext, but just in case any body can help. Is it possible to extract both the msgid and msgstr from javascript?

It seems like a very obvious requirement for a grunt-generated pot file but I can't seem to figure out how to do it.

I am trying to avoid the situation where the key changes if you add e.g. a question mark to the string inside your javascript. t('Are you sure') becoming t('Are you sure?').

If files contains a directory you'll get this error:

Warning: Command failed: xgettext: warning: file '' extension '' is unknown; will try C
xgettext: error while reading "": Is a directory
Use --force to continue.

Nothing abnormal going in here.

pot: {
    build: {
        options: {
            text_domain: text_domain,
            dest: 'build/languages/',
            keywords: ['gettext', '__', '_e']
        },
        files: {
            src: ['build/**'],
            expand: true
        }
    }
}

Hi,
I trying scanning gettext within attributes, but not working as well. Do need add some configuration to making is work?

I was wondering if it's possible to scan a folder for strings containing only a specific text domain? I'm asking because my theme also contains other text domains (BuddyPress ones) because I have to overwrite certain BuddyPress templates. When I used Grunt-Pot these strings are picked up again and I'd like to find a way around this.

Any help would be awesome and thanks a lot for this huge time saver :-)

I'm creating a grunt task for extracting strings from WordPress and it has been working fine so far, thanks so much! The issue I bumped into was the _nx() function in WordPress. The first parameter is the singular, the second is the plural, the third is the context.

My keywords are set up as below:

 keywords: ["_ex:1,2c", "_x:1,2c", "_nx:1,2,3c"],

In this case the functions are not parsed at all. When I use _nx:1,2 it works fine but doesn't parse the context. If it would be possible to implement this easily that would be awesome. Once I get some breathing room from the project I'll try and submit a pull request if it remains unresolved.

Thanks so much for the grunt task :)

I get this error because the grunt task is reading 169 files and convert this to long command line . I think, instead of create command line for all 169 files, it could create command line 10 by 10, or maybe 1 by 1, so, it will support thousands of files when it runs on windows.

Would it be possible for skipping a directory such as node_modules directory?

I am using grunt-pot to help with WordPress development. However I cannot seem to get a pot file created with any content in, it always produces an empty pot file.

My grunt task looks like this:

    pot: {
        options: {
            text_domain: 'test_site',
            dest: '<%= yeoman.dev %>/languages/',
            keywords: ['__', '_e']
        },

        files:{
            src:  [ '<%= yeoman.app %>/{,*/{,*/}}*.php' ],
            expand: true
        }
    }

I know the files>src property is fine as the same one works for the watch task.
Here is an example of what I want extracting into the pot file:

<?php _e( 'That page cannot be found.', 'test_site' ); ?>

Have I got an option set wrong?
Many thanks

I'm using grunt-pot 0.1.1

I tried to run grunt pot on windows more than once but failed, the result was https://www.dropbox.com/s/w1q1nzddbla1zsz/grunt-pot.png?dl=0

These two options require quoting; Windows only knows about double quotes for that.

The task consequently fails with "unable to find file" returned from xgettext

Hi,

I currently use windows 10 and i alway ge this error : xgettext is not recognized as an internal or external command

I tried to install gettext without any success.

i try this for installing gettext : https://mlocati.github.io/articles/gettext-iconv-windows.html

I still get this error : xgettext is not recognized as an internal or external command

Please help!

Being able to customize these lines from the header of the .pot file through options would be nice:

# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.```
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <[email protected]>\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=INTEGER; plural=EXPRESSION;\n"