I am trying to figure out how to port our django translations generation code to a pants-based build system. I assume the way I would need to do this is a codegen plugin? Is there a more straightforward way?

cc @clean-city-64472 who probably has thoughts/ideas here

yeah manage.py

I think we run compilemessages on the server during deploy. Makemessages is like migrations. Haven't looked at it in a long time so not super helpful here and I don't think our solution was very elegant in the end.

yeah my challenge right now is that I need makemessages to run before tests run

I think we might have a pytest fixture that runs it

ah interesting

The issue with makemigrations is that it writes the migration files relative to the models source files, which means if you run

./pants run path/to/manage.py makemigrations

it writes them in the sandbox, and not the source tree. I imagine something similar might happen for makemessages.

import pytest

from django.core.management import call_command


@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
def translations():
    call_command("makemessages", "--all")
    call_command("compilemessages")

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