feat(ui, localization, samples): message translations - #2870
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Automatically detects when Message.i18n already has a translation for the
current user's language (either from server-side auto-translation or an
earlier on-request translate call) and surfaces it as a message annotation,
with a tappable link to toggle back to the original text.
- DefaultStreamMessageHeader renders the annotation last in the mixed-
annotation priority order, per the design system's Figma spec, and names
the message's original language when known.
- The show-original toggle lives in a new StreamMessageTranslationStore,
scoped per StreamMessageListView, so it survives list virtualization
instead of resetting when a message widget scrolls out of view and back.
- Gated behind a new translationDisplayEnabled config flag (default true)
for apps that want to opt out entirely.
- Adds the "Translated"/"Original"/"Show original"/"Show translation"/
"Translated from {language}" strings, plus a curated language-code to
display-name table, to all 11 bundled locales.
…n message previews Stream's API defaults User.language to '' rather than omitting it, so the previous `language ?? currentUser?.language ?? 'en'` fallback never reached its 'en' default and previews silently rendered untranslated. Falls back to the device locale instead, matching the behavior already used elsewhere for message text and headers.
Adds a Translate action to the message long-press menu, gated behind a new "Message Translation" toggle in the sample app's configuration screen (disabled by default). Calls channel.translateMessage and merges the result into local channel state, so the SDK's own translation annotation and message rendering pick it up automatically. Only shown for received messages — translating your own message isn't useful — and always translates directly to the user's language (falling back to the device locale), with no language picker. Disabled once the message is already translated to that language, or the original text is already in it.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds configurable translated-message display, localized translation annotations, per-message original-text toggles, nullable language handling, public translation exports, updated message-list behavior, and sample-app controls. ChangesMessage translation
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participant StreamMessageListView
participant StreamMessageTranslationStore
participant StreamMessageItem
participant StreamMessageHeader
participant StreamMessageText
StreamMessageListView->>StreamMessageTranslationStore: provide per-list translation state
StreamMessageItem->>StreamMessageTranslationStore: read message original-text state
StreamMessageItem->>StreamMessageHeader: pass translation state and toggle callback
StreamMessageItem->>StreamMessageText: pass translation state
StreamMessageHeader->>StreamMessageTranslationStore: toggle original text
StreamMessageText-->>StreamMessageItem: render translated or original text
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StreamMessagePreviewText translated unconditionally, unlike StreamMessageText which already gates translation behind translationDisplayEnabled. This left the channel list, thread list, search results, quoted messages, and the reply-preview header showing translated text even when the flag was disabled SDK-wide.
The comment attributed the key to protecting a translation show-original toggle, which moved into StreamMessageTranslationStore (keyed externally by message id) and no longer needs it. The key is still required though: other per-message StatefulWidgets in this subtree (content, attachments, leading) would otherwise have their State reused for the wrong message when pagination prepends older messages and shifts every already-rendered item's index.
…n toggle The long-press message-actions modal re-renders the message in a fresh StreamMessageItem on top of the scrim, outside the StreamMessageListView subtree that owns the StreamMessageTranslationStore. Without re-providing that scope, the preview always showed the translation regardless of the list's toggle state, and its "Show original"/"Show translation" link had no effect. Captures the ambient store (if any) before opening the dialog and re-provides it around the nested StreamMessageItem, matching how StreamChatConfiguration and StreamChannel are already re-provided for the same modal.
StreamThreadListTile passed currentUser?.language straight through to StreamMessagePreviewText's language parameter, bypassing that widget's own null-or-empty-string fallback to the device locale. Stream's API defaults User.language to '' rather than omitting it, so thread previews silently stopped translating for exactly the case the preview-text fix already handled elsewhere. Also extracts the "null or empty string falls back to the device locale" logic into a single UserX.languageOrDeviceLocale extension. It was previously duplicated as two identical _resolveLanguage private functions (stream_message_header.dart, stream_message_text.dart) plus two more inlined switch expressions (stream_message_preview_text.dart, the sample app's custom_message_actions.dart) — all doing the same thing.
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translatedLabel, originalLabel, showOriginalLabel, showTranslationLabel, and translatedFromLanguageText are public members. Add a /// comment for each declaration.
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+ /// The annotation label shown for translated message content.
`@override`
String get translatedLabel => 'Translated';
+ /// The annotation label shown for original message content.
`@override`
String get originalLabel => 'Original';
+ /// The label that switches a message to its original text.
`@override`
String get showOriginalLabel => 'Show original';
+ /// The label that switches a message to its translated text.
`@override`
String get showTranslationLabel => 'Show translation';
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The doc comments for translatedLabel, originalLabel, showOriginalLabel, showTranslationLabel, and translatedFromLanguageText already exist on the abstract interface (stream_chat_flutter/lib/src/localization/translations.dart:730-756). Every concrete implementation in the repo — the base DefaultTranslations, all locale files in stream_chat_localizations/lib/src/, and this example file — consistently omits doc comments on @override members and relies on doc inheritance. Adding comments only in the example file would be inconsistent with the established convention, so I left it as-is.
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I would rename this to showTranslatedText instead
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StreamChatConfiguration.updateShouldNotifycomparesdata != oldWidget.data.StreamChatConfigurationDataandStreamMessageTranslationConfigurationdo not override==, so the comparison falls back to identity.sample_app/lib/app.dartbuilds a newStreamChatConfigurationDataon every build throughtoStreamChatConfigurationData(), so every dependent is notified on each ancestor rebuild.StreamMessageListView._resolveConfignow registers such a dependency, so itsdidChangeDependenciesruns on each of those rebuilds.Adding
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The current SDK already supports translating messages, but the UI package misses crucial features. This PR adds the annotations from the new design system that shows the fact that it's translated and you can switch between original and translated message. The SDK also adds a flag
StreamChatConfigurationData.translationDisplayEnabledso you can also disable auto translated messages.The sample app adds a button in the message actions so you can request a translation, as the sdk never automatically translate messages, although the backend can do that for you. The button to translate is disabled if the message is already translated to your language.
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