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
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
Marc Billow