Re: [cti] RE: i18n (RE: MVP Discussion)

[John-Mark Gurney <jmg@newcontext.com>]

Masuoka, Ryusuke wrote this message on Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 02:20 +0000:
> - Always give "text_id" and "lang" for every text field
>   (So that anyone can give translations to the field later, knowing
>   which language it is in.)
> 
> - Always give "text_ref", "text_id" and "lang" for every translation
>   ("text_id" is for someone to provide translations to other than one in the original language.
>   Example: A CTI text field created in Japanese, then it is given an English translation.
>     Then German and French translations are produced based on the English translation.)

A big issue with this is that now EVERY text field (that is
translatable) will now have a UUID.  For descriptions, this isn't a
big issue, but when we are talking about titles and the like, it's
possible that the UUID will be longer than the translation itself..

I much prefer to handle translations by pointing to the object id,
and then the fields that you want to translate..

This is what I'm talking about:
{
  "type": "package",
  ...
  "campaigns": [
    {
      "type": "campaign",
      "id": "campaign--a1201df6-c352-4a81-9c7c-5a6f896a4e31",
      "lang": "en",
      "revision": 1,
      "spec_version": "stix-2.0",
      "created_at": "2015-12-03T13:13Z",
      "created_by_ref": "identity--69a17e1b-bb45-4657-9a9d-96db3faccdde",
      "title": "Dridex Campaign - Botnet 121",
      "descriptions": "Dridex-based campaign leveraging Botnet 121",
      "intended_effects": [
        {"value": "theft-identity-theft"}
      ],
      "status": "Ongoing"
   }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "obj_ref": "campaign--a1201df6-c352-4a81-9c7c-5a6f896a4e31",
      "type": "translation"
      "lang": "ja",
      "text_id: "text-a1b2c3-ja-1",
      "title": "Dridex キャンペーン - ボットネット 121"
      "descriptions": "ボットネット 121 を活用する Dridex を元にしたキャンペーン"
    },
    {
      "obj_ref": "campaign--a1201df6-c352-4a81-9c7c-5a6f896a4e31",
      "type": "translation"
      "lang": "de",
      "title": "Some German Title”
      "description": "Some German Description"
    }
  ]
  ...
}

This is much more simple, It can be more simply handled in code by
overlaying objects by language preferences, etc...

As Bret pointed out, this does mean you can't have a base object w/
mixed languages, but I don't see a strong value in that, as those
other languages can be provided via translations...

-- 
John-Mark