Since entity.py started routing named descriptors through the catalog
under desc.key, SamsungEntityDescription.name has been read for its
value nowhere -- only twice as a flag, to decide whether an entity was
translated at all. That left 148 English names duplicated between Python
and translations/en.json with nothing keeping them honest: six had
already drifted, invisibly, because editing the Python side changes
nothing a user sees.
So the field is gone, and translation_key defaults to desc.key. A
descriptor now sets translation_key only to share one catalog entry
across descriptors or to point at a differently-named one, and the
catalog is the only place an entity name exists.
Every descriptor resolves to exactly the translation key, icon, entity
category, enabled-default and gating it did before -- with one
deliberate exception: the hood fan, previously the sole descriptor with
no key at all, now resolves to 'fan'. That is inert, because fan.py sets
_attr_name = None so the entity presents as the device itself.
The three helpers that forwarded a name into a descriptor
(laundry.bool_option_switch, washer._bool_option_switch, air_purifier's
sensor table) lose that parameter. test_translations.py now requires a
catalog entry for every descriptor rather than only translated ones.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GiibJZZLWVvyxq7mc7EDNp
Issue #27: the flex-zone/cooler-drawer select vanished after a device
stopped including supportedOptions on an update for /mode/vs/0.
ObserveManager.apply() handed reps straight to StateCache.apply_rep,
which fully replaces the cached rep -- so a partial update (missing a
field the select's exists_fn/options_field gate on) silently erased
data a fuller update had previously supplied. apply() now merges
incoming reps onto whatever's already cached instead.
Also give ice-maker entities (and any future pattern-cap instance) a
device-given display name instead of the href-derived "Icemaker
One"/"Icemaker Two": Capability.name_field lets a pattern capability
read and normalize an instance name (e.g. iceMaker.name's "CUBED_ICE")
for use as the entity name prefix, independent of the stable
key/unique_id.
Marc Billow