babel_extract doesn't work unless messages.pot already exists

[eyal0]

What were you doing?

Running python setup.py babel_extract in my new plugin.

What did you expect to happen?

└──> octoprint dev plugin:new Test
plugin_package [octoprint_Test]: 
plugin_name [OctoPrint-Test]: 
repo_name [OctoPrint-Test]: 
full_name [You]: 
email [[email protected]]: 
github_username [you]: 
plugin_version [0.1.0]: 
plugin_description [TODO]: 
plugin_license [AGPLv3]: 
plugin_homepage [https://github.com/you/OctoPrint-Test]: 
plugin_source [https://github.com/you/OctoPrint-Test]: 
plugin_installurl [https://github.com/you/OctoPrint-Test/archive/master.zip]: 
└──> cd OctoPrint-Test 
└──> python setup.py babel_extract
Found packages: ['octoprint_Test']
running babel_extract
extracting messages from octoprint_Test/__init__.py
extracting messages from octoprint_Test/static/js/Test.js (extract_messages="gettext, ngettext")
writing PO template file to ./translations/messages.pot

What happened instead?

└──> octoprint dev plugin:new Test
plugin_package [octoprint_Test]: 
plugin_name [OctoPrint-Test]: 
repo_name [OctoPrint-Test]: 
full_name [You]: 
email [[email protected]]: 
github_username [you]: 
plugin_version [0.1.0]: 
plugin_description [TODO]: 
plugin_license [AGPLv3]: 
plugin_homepage [https://github.com/you/OctoPrint-Test]: 
plugin_source [https://github.com/you/OctoPrint-Test]: 
plugin_installurl [https://github.com/you/OctoPrint-Test/archive/master.zip]: 
└──> cd OctoPrint-Test 
└──> python setup.py babel_extract
Found packages: ['octoprint_Test']
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

error: invalid command 'babel_extract'

Did the same happen when running OctoPrint in safe mode?

I was not running the OctoPrint server.

Version of OctoPrint

git commit 1ccc1fa

Operating System running OctoPrint

Linux

Printer model & used firmware incl. version

None

Browser and version of browser, operating system running browser

None

Link to octoprint.log

None

Link to contents of terminal tab or serial.log

None

Link to contents of Javascript console in the browser

None

Screenshot(s)/video(s) showing the problem:

Text above.

I have read the FAQ.

[ntoff]

This isn't a bug in octoprint, if you need help developing plugins then please use the forum located at https://discourse.octoprint.org/

[eyal0]

It is a bug in octoprint that babel_extract requires that messages.pot exist first. Would you please look at the PR and reconsider?

[eyal0]

By the way, it's not octoprint for which I found the bug, it's the octoprint_setuptools. I looked at the discourse and found no mentions of babel_extract at all, so I think that it is a new issue. Maybe I am the only developer to have ever tried translating a plugin?

[foosel]

Fixed by #2847 which was just merged to maintenance, soon devel and will be included in the 1.3.10 release.

[foosel]

Maybe I am the only developer to have ever tried translating a plugin?

Sadly only all too possible ;)

[foosel]

1.3.10 has been released.