mattermost-community / mattermost-plugin-autotranslate

Mattermost Autotranslation Plugin (Beta)

Maintainer: @saturninoabril

Autotranslation plugin for Mattermost.

Message autotranslation is powered by Amazon Translate which is a text translation service that uses advanced machine learning technologies to provide high-quality translation on demand. Amazon Translate can translate text between the languages listed in its website.

Feature

• Translate option available at dropdown menu of each regular post.
• Slash commands to change user settings using /autotranslate slash command
  • Check user info by issuing /autotranslate info to see current user setting
  • Turn on/off translation by issuing /autotranslate [on|off]
  • Change source language translation by initiating /autotranslate source [language code]
  • Change target language translation by initiating /autotranslate target [language code]
• Supported Languages and its codes can be found at Amazon Translate website.

Installation

Requires Mattermost 5.22 or higher

1. Install the plugin
   1. Download the latest version of the plugin from the GitHub releases page
   2. In Mattermost, go to the System Console -> Plugins -> Management
   3. Upload the plugin
2. Spin up Amazon Translate https://aws.amazon.com/translate/
3. In Mattermost, go to System Console -> Plugins -> Autotranslate * Fill in the AWS Access Key ID, Secret Access Key and Region
4. Enable the plugin
   • Go to System Console -> Plugins -> Management and click "Enable" underneath the Autotranslate plugin
5. Test it out
   • In Mattermost, run the slash command /autotranslate on and see if Translate option becomes available at dropdown menu of a post.

Developing

This plugin contains both a server and web app portion.

Use make dist to build distributions of the plugin that you can upload to a Mattermost server.

Use make check-style to check the style.

Use make localdeploy to deploy the plugin to your local server. You will need to restart the server to get the changes.

mattermost-plugin-autotranslate's Issues

Additionally support DeepL

Could this plugin support DeepL in addition? Or would that need a new plugin?

Problem I got when add it to the self-hold mattermost server

I download the plugin source code and compile successfuly, but when I add it to matttermost server, I can't run it successful, I get errors below:

{"level":"error","ts":1539943585.877963,"caller":"app/plugin.go:70","msg":"Unable to activate plugin","plugin_id":"autotranslate","error":"unable to start plugin: autotranslate: Must have AWS Access Key ID","errorVerbose":"Must have AWS Access Key ID\nunable to start plugin: autotranslate\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/plugin.(*Environment).Activate\n\t/home/ubuntu/jenkins/workspace/msr/mattermost-platform-release/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/plugin/environment.go:211\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*App).SyncPluginsActiveState\n\t/home/ubuntu/jenkins/workspace/msr/mattermost-platform-release/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/plugin.go:68\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*App).InitPlugins.func2\n\t/home/ubuntu/jenkins/workspace/msr/mattermost-platform-release/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/plugin.go:141\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*App).InvokeConfigListeners\n\t/home/ubuntu/jenkins/workspace/msr/mattermost-platform-release/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/config.go:138\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*App).UpdateConfig\n\t/home/ubuntu/jenkins/workspace/msr/mattermost-platform-release/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/config.go:50\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*App).EnablePlugin\n\t/home/ubuntu/jenkins/workspace/msr/mattermost-platform-release/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/plugin.go:206\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/api4.enablePlugin\n\t/home/ubuntu/jenkins/workspace/msr/mattermost-platform-release/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/api4/plugin.go:183\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/web.Handler.ServeHTTP\n\t/home/ubuntu/jenkins/workspace/msr/mattermost-platform-release/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/web/handlers.go:131\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/web.(*Handler).ServeHTTP\n\t:1\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/vendor/github.com/gorilla/mux.(*Router).ServeHTTP\n\t/home/ubuntu/jenkins/workspace/msr/mattermost-platform-release/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/vendor/github.com/gorilla/mux/mux.go:162\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/vendor/github.com/gorilla/handlers.recoveryHandler.ServeHTTP\n\t/home/ubuntu/jenkins/workspace/msr/mattermost-platform-release/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/vendor/github.com/gorilla/handlers/recovery.go:78\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/vendor/github.com/gorilla/handlers.(*recoveryHandler).ServeHTTP\n\t:1\nnet/http.serverHandler.ServeHTTP\n\t/usr/local/go/src/net/http/server.go:2741\nnet/http.(*conn).serve\n\t/usr/local/go/src/net/http/server.go:1847\nruntime.goexit\n\t/usr/local/go/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1333"}
{"level":"error","ts":1539943588.0861664,"caller":"app/plugin_requests.go:33","msg":"Access to route for non-existent plugin","missing_plugin_id":"autotranslate","error":"plugin not found: autotranslate"}

mattermost verison 5.4.0

I add ak and sk of aws correctly, but it also got the error "Must have AWS Access Key ID", Can somebody help me?

Automatic bot message translation

Sorry for asking this here, but how do you automatically have an incoming bot message automatically translated? Thanks.

No “Translate” in the drop-down menu in the mobile app

Hey there, Is there any way to use this plugin in the mobile app?
At the moment the Translate button appears on the desktop app only(

feat: Google Cloud Translation API support

I'm running my Mattermost instance in Google Cloud. I'd love to be able to make use of the Google Cloud Translation API to do auto-translation in my instance.

Thank you for your work on this really useful plugin!

AWS Translate code not working: zh-TW, fa-AF, fr-CA, es-MX

For the language codes that has a hyphen in between, /autotranslate target [code] will respond with no error, but an attempt to translate will result in an error: Invalid parameter: target (close)

these languages are essentially not working

Unable to start plugin: autotranslate: Must have AWS Access Key ID

Hello again,

I am very sorry to write twice in such a short period of time. I did my best to troubleshoot the issue, but I cannot wrap my head around this. The error message doesn't describe the issue, and I don't know if you can replicate it. If it's too much work to investigate, no problem :)

When I install and start the 0.2.0 plugin, I get the following error in the logs (see full log at the bottom):

unable to start plugin: autotranslate: Must have AWS Access Key ID

I did the following steps to troubleshoot:

1. Deleted the plugin in the system console
2. Stopped mattermost
3. Deleted the settings in config.json related to the plugin
4. Started Mattermost
5. Installed the plugin in system console
6. Put the AWS Keys in the plugin settings
7. Attempted to start the plugin

Things I looked at:

• I checked the config.json file, there is no issue with it. The AWS values are saved correctly.
• I tried on a test server (same DB and server specs, but no other plugins and different config.json), same issue.
• I looked at the code. Here is the part that seems to check for the AWS key in server/plugin.go:

func (p *Plugin) IsValid() error {
	if p.AWSAccessKeyID == "" {
		return fmt.Errorf("Must have AWS Access Key ID")
	}

	if p.AWSSecretAccessKey == "" {
		return fmt.Errorf("Must have AWS Secret Access Key")
	}

	if p.AWSRegion == "" {
		return fmt.Errorf("AWS Region")
	}

	return nil
}

And here is the definition in the plugin.json file:

"settings": [
            {
                "key": "AWSAccessKeyID",
                "display_name": "AWS Access Key ID",
                "type": "text",
                "help_text": "The access key ID from AWS"
            },

In the config.json file, the keys are not capitalized:

"autotranslate": {
                "awsaccesskeyid": "XXXXXXXXXX",
                "awsregion": "eu-central-1",
                "awssecretaccesskey": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
            }

Could this be it? If it is and you don't have the time, I can try making a pull request where I rename all the keys to be lower case in the repo.

I'm running MM 5.12 on a Linode server running Debian Stretch.

If you need me to do anything to help, please ask!

PS: This is the full error log:

2019-06-25T14:37:31.437+0200 debug web/handlers.go:58 POST - /api/v4/plugins/autotranslate/enable
2019-06-25T14:37:31.462+0200 debug jobs/workers.go:108 Workers received config change.
2019-06-25T14:37:31.478+0200 debug jobs/schedulers.go:185 Schedulers received config change.
2019-06-25T14:37:31.490+0200 debug jobs/schedulers.go:167 Next run time for scheduler MigrationsScheduler: <nil>
2019-06-25T14:37:31.514+0200 debug plugin/hclog_adapter.go:33 starting plugin {"plugin_id": "autotranslate", "wrapped_extras": "pathplugins/autotranslate/server/dist/plugin-linux-amd64args[plugins/autotranslate/server/dist/plugin-linux-amd64]"}
2019-06-25T14:37:31.515+0200 debug plugin/hclog_adapter.go:33 plugin started {"plugin_id": "autotranslate", "wrapped_extras": "pathplugins/autotranslate/server/dist/plugin-linux-amd64pid19793"}
2019-06-25T14:37:31.515+0200 debug plugin/hclog_adapter.go:33 waiting for RPC address {"plugin_id": "autotranslate", "wrapped_extras": "pathplugins/autotranslate/server/dist/plugin-linux-amd64"}
2019-06-25T14:37:31.569+0200 debug plugin/hclog_adapter.go:33 plugin address {"plugin_id": "autotranslate", "wrapped_extras": "address/tmp/plugin808676694networkunixtimestamp2019-06-25T14:37:31.569+0200"}
2019-06-25T14:37:31.570+0200 debug plugin/hclog_adapter.go:33 using plugin {"plugin_id": "autotranslate", "wrapped_extras": "version1"}
2019-06-25T14:37:31.609+0200 debug plugin/hclog_adapter.go:33 plugin process exited {"plugin_id": "autotranslate", "wrapped_extras": "pathplugins/autotranslate/server/dist/plugin-linux-amd64pid19793"}
2019-06-25T14:37:31.610+0200 debug plugin/hclog_adapter.go:35 plugin exited {"plugin_id": "autotranslate"}
2019-06-25T14:37:31.610+0200 error mlog/log.go:172 Unable to activate plugin {"plugin_id": "autotranslate", "error": "unable to start plugin: autotranslate: Must have AWS Access Key ID", "errorVerbose": "Must have AWS Access Key ID
unable to start plugin: autotranslate
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/plugin.(*Environment).Activate
\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/plugin/environment.go:230
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*App).SyncPluginsActiveState
\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/plugin.go:95
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*App).InitPlugins.func2
\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/plugin.go:172
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/config.(*emitter).invokeConfigListeners.func1
\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/config/emitter.go:35
sync.(*Map).Range
\t/usr/local/go/src/sync/map.go:333
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/config.(*emitter).invokeConfigListeners
\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/config/emitter.go:33
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/config.(*commonStore).set
\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/config/common.go:82
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/config.(*FileStore).Set
\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/config/file.go:97
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*Server).UpdateConfig
\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/config.go:53
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*App).UpdateConfig
\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/config.go:59
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*App).EnablePlugin
\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/plugin.go:245
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/api4.enablePlugin
\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/api4/plugin.go:191
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/web.Handler.ServeHTTP
\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/web/handlers.go:144
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/vendor/github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler.GzipHandlerWithOpts.func1.1
\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/vendor/github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler/gzip.go:336
net/http.HandlerFunc.ServeHTTP
\t/usr/local/go/src/net/http/server.go:1995
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/vendor/github.com/gorilla/mux.(*Router).ServeHTTP
\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/vendor/github.com/gorilla/mux/mux.go:212
net/http.serverHandler.ServeHTTP
\t/usr/local/go/src/net/http/server.go:2774
net/http.(*conn).serve
\t/usr/local/go/src/net/http/server.go:1878
runtime.goexit
\t/usr/local/go/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1337"}

Feature request: Translate Channel

Thank you for developing this plugin. This is the main reason mattermost is useful for me and my international team.

Being opensource and based on AWS is important for privacy and security issues, in that area slack+untangle (its auto translation bot) cannot match. However the slack combo has an important feature that is lacking in the mattermost counterpart, that is to translate an entire channel, so that the user do not need to click the "translate" button for every message.

We are in the creative industries and being able to exchange ideas seamlessly and freely is important, the conversation needs to have a flow, the translate button can break this flow. This is the only reason we cannot adopt mattermost right now.

Please consider adding the feature to translate every new message for the entire channel without further user input.

Cheers
DS

Unable to install latest version

I keep receiving this error with v0.2.0, both when I download the published release or build from source:

{"level":"error","ts":1565852540.218115,"caller":"mlog/log.go:172","msg":"Unable to activate plugin","plugin_id":"autotranslate","error":"unable to start plugin: autotranslate: Unrecognized remote plugin message: \n\nThis usually means that the plugin is either invalid or simply\nneeds to be recompiled to support the latest protocol.","errorVerbose":"Unrecognized remote plugin message: \n\nThis usually means that the plugin is either invalid or simply\nneeds to be recompiled to support the latest protocol.\nunable to start plugin: autotranslate\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/plugin.(*Environment).Activate\n\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/plugin/environment.go:230\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*App).SyncPluginsActiveState\n\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/plugin.go:95\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*App).InitPlugins\n\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/plugin.go:126\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*Server).RunOldAppInitalization.func6\n\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/server_app_adapters.go:147\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/config.(*emitter).invokeConfigListeners.func1\n\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/config/emitter.go:35\nsync.(*Map).Range\n\t/usr/local/go/src/sync/map.go:333\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/config.(*emitter).invokeConfigListeners\n\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/config/emitter.go:33\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/config.(*commonStore).set\n\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/config/common.go:82\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/config.(*FileStore).Set\n\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/config/file.go:97\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*Server).UpdateConfig\n\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/config.go:53\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*App).UpdateConfig\n\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/config.go:59\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*App).EnablePlugin\n\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/plugin.go:245\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/api4.enablePlugin\n\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/api4/plugin.go:191\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/web.Handler.ServeHTTP\n\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/web/handlers.go:144\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/vendor/github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler.GzipHandlerWithOpts.func1.1\n\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/vendor/github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler/gzip.go:336\nnet/http.HandlerFunc.ServeHTTP\n\t/usr/local/go/src/net/http/server.go:1995\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/vendor/github.com/gorilla/mux.(*Router).ServeHTTP\n\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/vendor/github.com/gorilla/mux/mux.go:212\ngithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app.(*RateLimiter).RateLimitHandler.func1\n\t/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/app/ratelimit.go:109\nnet/http.HandlerFunc.ServeHTTP\n\t/usr/local/go/src/net/http/server.go:1995\nnet/http.serverHandler.ServeHTTP\n\t/usr/local/go/src/net/http/server.go:2774\nnet/http.(*conn).serve\n\t/usr/local/go/src/net/http/server.go:1878\nruntime.goexit\n\t/usr/local/go/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1337"}

White page with Mattermost 5.12

Hello,

Thank you for developing the plugin. After updating Mattermost to version 5.12 (from 5.10), I have noticed that the Autotranslate plugin has an issue, that turns the whole page white.
I know you have published new commits recently, but I cannot read code to know if this fixes this issue. Please ignore this if it has already been fixed and only needs to be released.
Mattermost 5.11 and 5.12 introduced the following changes for plugins (from https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/changelog.html#release-v5-12-feature-release):

• If your plugin uses the DeleteEphemeralMessage plugin API, update it to accept a postId string parameter.

Again, thank you for this great plugin.

If I can help in any way about the issue, please ask.

Jonas

Translate multiple selected languages

Hey there, thanks so much for creating such a useful plugin for mattermost. Greatly appreciate it. Has helped my global team in communications.

I would like to ask that instead of relying on AWS Comprehend for the 'auto' function of the plugin (as they do not provide us a free tier),

Is there a way to select multiple source languages manually? Currently, I believe that the following command only supports 1 language source

/autotranslate source zh

and does not support multiple source languages.

Translation does not occur

Even though I have provided all API settings and Amazon-side permissions correctly, the translation does not work. I wonder what I might have missed in this regard?

plugin does not work

When I clicked on the drop down menu, it did not work, nothing happened

Plugin version: 0.2.0. Revision number: 8c87f7f
Mattermost Version: 5.16.2

docs(readme): Currently not compatible with Mattermost?

From the README:

Installation

Requires Mattermost 5.4 or higher (Currently not compatible with Mattermost as there's minor change requested to plugin system.)

I'm specifically curious about this line:

Currently not compatible with Mattermost as there's minor change requested to plugin system.

Is this accurate?

Where can I get the released plugin

By the way, where can I get released plugin?