Is it possible to activate an addon while creating a new component via API?

[JohnRDOrazio]

I have started working recently with the weblate API in order to automatically create project components from InDesign documents. I was just wondering, when creating a component using fetch with POST method to https://{path-to-weblate-api}/projects/{project-slug}/components/, is it possible to enable addons at the same time? Or does this have to be done in a successive API call?

I have successfully activated an addon with a successive API call to the https://{path-to-weblate-api}/components/{project-slug}/{component-slug}/addons/ endpoint using POST method with a value like this:

{
  name: "weblate.autotranslate.autotranslate",
  configuration: {
    mode: "suggest",
    engines: "weblate",
    component: null,
    threshold: 80,
    auto_source: 'others',
    filter_type: 'todo'
  }
}

and I see that the addon is successfully activated.

I have attempted to do the addon activation at time of component creation by adding an addons key to the JSON payload with the same value as above wrapped in an array: addons: [ { name: "weblate.autotranslate.autotranslate", configuration: { ... } } ]. However this does not seem to work. Is it possible to activate addons during component creation in a single call?

[nijel]

No, add-ons have to be installed in an additional API call. If this is something you often do, you might want to use https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/config.html#default-addons.

PS: The upcoming release will bring possibilty to install add-ons on project or site scopes as well:

• Site-wide add-ons #10052
• Project-wide installed add-ons #10051

[eheck-is]

Is there a way to find out which add-ons will work project-wide or side-wide execpt try-and-error? I've installed the autotranslate add-on to a project and it doesn't do anything. Missing strings get translated only when I add it to the individual components. I have version 5.7.2 (I still have Python 3.10 and cannot update right now)

[nijel]

The only add-on which has limited scopes is component discovery, any other add-on should work in any scope. I know we fixed some issues like that, but I don't recall if this is something that was fixed in the 5.8 release.