source: code/trunk/main.go@ 9

// $TheSupernovaDuo: stcli,v 1.3.1 2023/02/11 07:54:25 akoizumi Exp 
// Command line client for SimplyTranslate, a privacy friendly frontend to other translation engines
package main

import (
        "encoding/json"
        "flag"
        "fmt"
        "log"
        "net/http"
        "net/url"
)
var (
        engine string
        from string
        instance string
        input string
        to string
)
type Translate struct {
        Output string `json:"translated-text"`
}
func init() {
        flag.StringVar(&engine, "e", "google", "Translation engine to use (default: google)")
        flag.StringVar(&from, "f", "auto", "Set the language to translate from. This can be skipped as it will autodetect the language you're translating from")
        flag.StringVar(&instance, "i", "https://simplytranslate.org/api/translate/", "Instance to use (default: https://simplytranslate.org/api/translate/)")
        flag.StringVar(&input, "I", "", "Enter the text to be translated")
        flag.StringVar(&to, "t", "en", "Set the language to translate to (default: en)")
}
func main() {
        // Begin flag parsing
        flag.Parse()
        // Check if any of those two variables is empty.
        // It actually needs the two to have content.
        if len(input) == 0 {
                log.Fatal("Missing input.")
        }
        // Map a variable to the struct
        var translate Translate
        // Build the full URL to query
        var encinput = url.PathEscape(input)
        var queryURL = instance + "?engine=" + engine + "&from=" + from + "&to=" + to + "&text=" + encinput
        // Begin the request and process the response
        resp, err := http.Get(queryURL)
        sanityCheck(err)
        defer resp.Body.Close()
        // JSON decoding
        _ = json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&translate)
        sanityCheck(err)
        // Pretty-print both the input and the output given.
        fmt.Printf("Input: %v\n", input)
        fmt.Printf("Output: %v\n",translate.Output)
}
func sanityCheck(err error) {
        if err != nil {
                log.Fatal(err)
        }
}