Translate: Register the locale glossary route for API requests

[jeherve]

Trac ticket: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8436

What it does

This registers the read-only locale glossary route for API requests, so https://translate.wordpress.org/api/locale/{locale}/{set}/glossary/ returns the locale glossary as JSON. Today, that URL returns a 404 page.

wporg-gp-routes serves locale glossaries from /locale/ instead of GlotPress' default /languages/, but it only registers the /locale/.../glossary routes for regular requests. For API requests, nothing matches /api/locale/..., and GlotPress' own /api/languages/... route can't find the locale glossary either, since the path prefix is filtered to /locale.

Dependency

This depends on GlotPress/GlotPress#2119, which adds the glossary API template (plus ?term= and ?extended=1). With the GlotPress version currently running on translate.wordpress.org, this route would return an empty JSON response instead of a 404, so it shouldn't be committed before translate.wordpress.org runs a GlotPress version that includes #2119.

Why

I'd like AI agents to be able to fetch a language's glossary when suggesting translations, without having to scrape the glossary page to keep a local copy up to date :) More context in the ticket, and in GlotPress/GlotPress#2118.

Project glossaries don't need anything on this side: once #2119 is deployed, /api/projects/{project}/{locale}/{set}/glossary/ works as is.

Of note, only the GET route is registered for API requests. Adding, editing, deleting, and importing entries stay the way they are.

Testing

1. In a GlotPress checkout, switch to the branch from Glossary: Return glossary entries as JSON through the API GlotPress/GlotPress#2119.
2. In environments/, create translate/.wp-env.override.json (it's git-ignored) with the plugins list from translate/.wp-env.json, replacing https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/glotpress.zip with the path to that GlotPress checkout.
3. Start the environment with npm run translate:env start, then flush rewrite rules, since the GlotPress plugin folder name changes: npm run translate:env -- run cli -- wp rewrite flush --hard
4. Create a French locale glossary with a couple of entries:

   npm run translate:env -- run cli -- wp eval '$set = GP::$translation_set->by_project_id_slug_and_locale( 0, "default", "fr" ) ?: GP::$translation_set->create( array( "name" => "French (France)", "slug" => "default", "project_id" => 0, "locale" => "fr" ) ); $glossary = GP::$glossary->by_set_id( $set->id ) ?: GP::$glossary->create( array( "translation_set_id" => $set->id ) ); GP::$glossary_entry->create( array( "glossary_id" => $glossary->id, "term" => "plugin", "part_of_speech" => "noun", "translation" => "extension", "last_edited_by" => 1 ) ); GP::$glossary_entry->create( array( "glossary_id" => $glossary->id, "term" => "theme", "part_of_speech" => "noun", "translation" => "thème", "last_edited_by" => 1 ) );'
   

5. Check the API:

   curl "http://localhost:8888/api/locale/fr/default/glossary/"
   curl -i "http://localhost:8888/api/locale/fr/default/glossary/?term=plugin"
   curl "http://localhost:8888/api/projects/wp-plugins/hello-dolly/dev/fr/default/glossary/?extended=1"
   

   The first two should return the French locale glossary as JSON (the second one only with matching entries, and a Last-Modified header). The third should return the locale glossary too, since Hello Dolly has no glossary of its own.
6. Check that http://localhost:8888/locale/fr/default/glossary/ and its CSV export still work.

Without this change, the first two requests return a 404 page.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added an API route for retrieving glossary entries by locale and set.
  • Documented the glossary API route for improved discoverability.

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Walkthrough

The plugin documents and registers a locale/set glossary retrieval route for API requests. Non-API routing remains unchanged.

Changes

Glossary API Route

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Register glossary API route wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wporg-gp-routes/inc/class-plugin.php	The custom route list documents the glossary route. API requests register the locale/set glossary retrieval route after the default language and profile routes are removed.

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Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7e9a5

The new glossary endpoint may not return its JSON response unless the required GlotPress template is deployed first, so deployment ordering should be confirmed before merge.

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- Line 127: Gate deployment of the route registered with GP::$router->prepend
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equivalent change providing glossary-view.api.php is guaranteed in the deployed
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