The module translates content entities (recursing into referenced Paragraphs), taxonomy terms, and interface (Twig) strings into a site's languages using any OpenAI-compatible chat completions API — OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or a local model such as Ollama/LM Studio/vLLM. It always preserves human translations: Generated translations are fingerprinted, and a translation a person has authored or edited is never overwritten unless the editor explicitly chooses to regenerate it.
How it differs from existing projects
It is intentionally small and self-hosted, with no dependency on a larger framework. Compared with TMGMT and the AI module's translation features (which provide full translation-workflow ecosystems and provider plugin systems), this module is a single-purpose tool: Point it at an endpoint, write a prompt, and translate from the UI. Distinctive points are the fingerprint-based
human-translation protection, automatic target-language detection, a configurable prompt template with an optional per-language glossary, and provider-agnostic optional parameters (reasoning_effort/verbosity/temperature) that are sent only when set. It complements rather than competes with the larger frameworks.
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Comment #2
avpadernoThank you for applying!
Before giving links helpful to understand how the review process works, what to expect from a review, and what to do to avoid a review takes more time than needed, I would like to thank all the reviewers for the work they do.
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Comment #3
avpadernoThe How it differs from existing projects point should be added to the project page.
LICENSE.txt
The content of the LICENSE.txt file is expected to be the same of the LICENSE.txt file used by Drupal core.
Comment #4
zakariabdc commentedComment #5
zakariabdc commentedThanks for the review!
- LICENSE.txt now matches Drupal core's LICENSE.txt (full GPL-2.0 text).
- Added a "How it differs from existing projects" section to the project page.
- CI is green (the earlier cspell warning is fixed with a project dictionary).
Comment #6
vishal.kadam1. FILE: README.md
The README file is missing the required section - Configuration.
2. FILE: ai_content_translator.module
For a new module that aims to be compatible with Drupal 10 and Drupal 11, I would rather implement hooks as class methods as described in Support for object oriented hook implementations using autowired services.
It would require increasing the minimum Drupal 10 version supported, but Drupal 10.1 is no longer supported.
3. FILE: src/Form/SettingsForm.php
With Drupal 10 and Drupal 11, there is no longer need to use #default_value for each form element, when the parent class is ConfigFormBase: It is sufficient to use #config_target, as in the following code.
Using that code, it is no longer needed to save the configuration values in the form submission handler: The parent class will take care of that.
For this change, it is necessary to require at least Drupal 10.3, but that is not an issue, since Drupal 10.2.x is no longer supported.
Comment #7
zakariabdc commentedThanks for the review! All three addressed:
1. README: added a Configuration section.
2. Hooks: converted hook_help and hook_form_node_form_alter to OOP class
methods (#[Hook]) with autowired services, in
src/Hook/AiContentTranslatorHooks.php. Since the attribute-based hook system
requires Drupal 11.1+, the module now targets ^11.1 || ^12.
3. SettingsForm: config-backed elements now use #config_target; the manual
saving was removed from the submit handler (the API token stays in State,
so it is still handled there).
Comment #8
santerref commentedManual review of the
1.0.xbranch, commit3c85bc7.requestTranslation()passes onlyheadersandbodyto the HTTP client, and Drupal buildshttp_clientwith a 30 second timeout. Anything longer is aborted, logged as "API request failed" and returns NULL. A full node body, especially with the reasoning-effort options the form exposes, goes past 30 seconds routinely. The calls run in a batch, so an explicit larger timeout is safe.homepage,support.issuesandsupport.sourceall point at the GitHub repository. Not a rule, but this application asks for security advisory coverage, which is handled through the drupal.org queue, so sending reporters elsewhere works against it.TranslationOverviewController::overview()adds the link on every untranslated row without checkingtranslate content with ai, which the target route requires, so the button returns 403. The check also needs theuser.permissionscache context on the build, otherwise the table is shared between users who have the permission and users who do not. Confirmed on a running site.Points 1 and 2 are from reading the code; point 3 is reproduced on a running site. I did not call a live API endpoint.
Comment #9
zakariabdc commentedThanks for the thorough review - all three addressed:
1. Timeout: requestTranslation() now sets an explicit timeout (connect_timeout
10s; read timeout is configurable via a new "Request timeout (seconds)"
setting, default 120), so long responses in the batch are no longer cut off
at Guzzle's 30s default.
2. composer.json: homepage and support now point to drupal.org (project page,
issue queue, and git.drupalcode.org). The README install instructions use the
drupal.org composer command.
3. Access: TranslationOverviewController::overview() now checks
"translate content with ai" before adding the link, and adds the
user.permissions cache context to the build - so the button only renders for
users who can use it, and the table is never shared across permission sets.
Verified with an anonymous user vs. a user granted the permission.
Also normalised line endings to LF repo-wide.
Comment #10
avpadernoThank you for your contribution and for your patience with the review process!
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Comment #11
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