PR #68 restated its own translation data in Python: a 60-line
TRANSLATED_SELECT_STATES table of frozensets duplicating every
entity.select.*.state key, a second _TRANSLATED_COURSE_TABLES table
naming which course tables have translations, and a strings.json that
was a 835-line byte-for-byte copy of translations/en.json save 43
[%key:...%] references. Each needed hand-syncing, and one was already
drifting.
Home Assistant loads exactly one file per language for a custom
integration -- translations/<lang>.json. It never reads strings.json and
never resolves [%key:...%]; both belong to Core's build tooling, which
custom integrations don't run through (hassfest skips a missing
strings.json and validates translations/en.json instead). So en.json is
the source, and the new catalog.py reads the keys and states back out of
it for the two decisions Python genuinely has to make:
- select._display() normalizes a raw Samsung option to a lowercase
state key only when the catalog knows it, else leaves the vendor's
casing alone. Derived sets are identical to the removed literals.
- laundry.cycle_select() keys off a device-reported course table only
when that table has an entry, else falls back to the name-only
'cycle' key. Translating Table_00 is now a translations-only change.
Also fixes six names that had already drifted between the Python
descriptors and the catalog, restoring HA's sentence case for two
generic ones (Auto release dry, Bubble soak) and taking the catalog's
wording for the rest, and adds a test so the vestigial descriptor names
can't silently disagree with the UI again.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GiibJZZLWVvyxq7mc7EDNp
Course codes on the shared /course/vs/0 contract aren't guaranteed
consistent across board generations: washer/combo devices report course
table Table_02, dryer devices Table_03 (x.com.samsung.da.st.courseTable,
previously fully ignored), and every code in washer_cycle/dryer_cycle was
confirmed exclusively against those. FlexWash's older DA_WM_A51 board
reports Table_00 instead -- applying the same translations there risked
showing a wrong name for any code that happens to numerically collide
between tables, not just an untranslated one.
SelectDesc.translation_key can now be a callable (resources -> key or
None), mirroring the existing pattern for `options`. laundry.cycle_select
gains optional table_href/validated_table params: when given, the renamed
washer_cycle_table_02/dryer_cycle_table_03 keys only apply when the
device's own course table matches exactly -- a different table, or no
table id at all, gets no translation_key (raw code display) rather than
a guess. dishwasher's call site is unchanged (static key, unconditional):
no equivalent table-id resource exists in any dump seen, and no evidence
its course codes vary by table the way washer/dryer's do.
entity.py and select.py resolve a callable translation_key once (via
coordinator.last_resources) and reuse that resolved value everywhere
_display() needs it, rather than re-checking the raw descriptor field.
_normalize() lowercased every select's options/state for display, but
that's only needed for entities with a translation_key (whose
strings.json lookup requires lowercase keys, per hassfest). Untranslated
selects (Cycle, Smart Dry, Sound mode, LED brightness) had no lookup to
protect and were just getting mangled -- "AI Wash" became "ai wash",
"ExtraHigh" became "extrahigh", etc.
Replace with _display(), which only lowercases for translation_key
entities and otherwise passes the device's own casing through, with two
cosmetic fixups: a fully lowercase wire value (e.g. "voice") is
title-cased, and a PascalCase value (e.g. "ExtraHigh") gets a space at
the case boundary. Already human-friendly values pass through
untouched. Avoids hand-authoring strings.json translations for
open-ended, per-model option lists (e.g. dishwasher cycle names) that
would silently regress on any value we didn't enumerate.
Marc Billow