Sample script to add a new locale translations

[Jerska]

#! /usr/bin/env ruby

require 'pry'
require_relative './zendesk.rb'

SOURCE_LOCALE = 'en-us'
TARGET_LOCALE = 'en-ca'

class ZendeskAPI::Translation < ZendeskAPI::Resource
  namespace 'help_center'
  def self.add! client, type, id, translation
    client.connection.post(
      "/api/v2/help_center/#{type}/#{id}/translations.json", 
      {translation: translation},
    )
  end
end

class Importer
  def initialize(app_name, email, token)
    @client = ZendeskAPI::Client.new do |config|
      config.url = "https://#{app_name}.zendesk.com/api/v2"
      config.username = email
      config.token = token
      config.retry = true
    end
  end

  def run(type)
    i = 0
    @client.send(type).all! do |obj|
      puts "#{type}: #{i += 1}"
      translations = obj.translations.to_a!
      locales = translations.map { |t| t.locale }.sort
      next unless locales.include?(SOURCE_LOCALE) && !locales.include?(TARGET_LOCALE)
      copy = JSON.parse(translations[0].to_json)
      copy.delete 'id'
      copy.delete 'url'
      copy.delete 'html_url'
      copy['locale'] = TARGET_LOCALE
      ZendeskAPI::Translation.add!(@client, type, obj.id, copy)
      puts 'Added translation'
    end
  end
end

Importer.new(ENV['APP_NAME'], ENV['EMAIL'], ENV['TOKEN']).run('categories')
Importer.new(ENV['APP_NAME'], ENV['EMAIL'], ENV['TOKEN']).run('sections')
Importer.new(ENV['APP_NAME'], ENV['EMAIL'], ENV['TOKEN']).run('articles')