Disable line numbers

[pronebird]

Hi,

Is it possible to disable the output of line numbers in references field? The idea behind is to reduce the amount of noise in gettext catalogues because our codebase changes a lot but translations normally remain the same, so when running the gettext-extractor we get a dirty git because of the line numbers change.

[lukasgeiter]

Currently this is not possible, but I will consider implementing it in the next feature release.

[pronebird]

@lukasgeiter a little input on this: we could also implement a feature to disable file references at once, not just line numbers 👍

[lukasgeiter]

Sure thing, that should be easy to implement 🙂

[pronebird]

The workaround that I use for now (taking advantage of mutability and object references, which is not really cool but easier than parsing POT line-by-line)

// clean file references
extractor.getMessages().forEach((msg) => {
  msg.references = [];
});
extractor.savePotFile(outputPotFile);

[fatihacet]

Nice workaround from @pronebird 👍

msg.references = []; will completely delete the file reference comment. If you only want to delete the line number which is usually the reason for conflicts, you can do:

extractor.getMessages().forEach((msg) => {
  msg.references = msg.references.map((ref) => {
    return ref.replace(/:([^:]+)$/, '');
  });
});

[kreba]

And you'd probably want to remove duplicated file names after that.