Feature request: Option to add custom translation services

[matthijs166]

It would be awesome if this plugin has a parameter option to add your own translation service.

https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions/4370#discussioncomment-7798429

[r1tsuu]

Hello, thanks for bringing up my plugin :)

But you can pass translateService async function prop to the plugin.

type TranslateService = (text: string, target: string, source: string) => Promise<string>;

export type TranslatorConfig = {
  GOOGLE_API_KEY?: string;
  translateService?: TranslateService;
  afterTranslate?: (data: AfterTranslateData) => Promise<string[]>;
  beforeTranslate?: (data: BeforeTransalateData) => Promise<string[]>;
  access?: (req: PayloadRequest) => Promise<boolean> | boolean;
  slateToHtmlConfig?: SlateToHtmlConfig;
  htmlToSlateConfig?: HtmlToSlateConfig;
  collections?: string[];
  globals?: string[];
};

From readme:

translateService - If you would like to use for example DeepL instead of Google, you can write you own implementation for the service

For example with this:

plugins: [
  translatorPlugin({
    GOOGLE_API_KEY: process.env.GOOGLE_API_KEY,
    collections: ['examples'],
    translateService: (text, target, source) => `${text} ${target} ${source}`
  }),

Any text should transform to this pattern, target - language to transform, source - current language. Maybe would be good to add additional pre-defined services like DeepL and GPT3.5. I even tried GPT3.5, but it's much slower than Google and sometimes it breaks the structure of the needed response, DeepL should be fine.

I plan to make some things better, improve the code (now it's kinda mess), publish to npm (probably would nice?) after some time

[matthijs166]

Ahhh think I'm blind 🙈 Should have read the docs... haha

Very cool! Thx for the response. Love the plugin you made