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Replace Flask-BabelEx with Flask-Babel #2460

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@samuelhwilliams samuelhwilliams commented Jul 16, 2024

Flask-BabelEx has been deprecated and archived. The original Flask-Babel is now alive and active again, so it makes sense to convert Flask-Admin back to using that library instead from v2.0.0.

Although Flask-Admin has claimed to support Flask-Babel at the same time as Flask-BabelEx, there was one semi-significant issue that I came across with only Flask-Babel: if the package is installed, but Flask-Babel is never initialised against the Flask app, then Flask-Admin will crash. Flask-BabelEx would silently fall back to the untranslated strings, but Flask-Admin does a hard lookup on app.extensions['babel'] and dies.

This led to a series of test changes in order to make sure that Flask-Babel is correctly set up for all tests. If Flask-Babel is not installed, this is a noop, which should also make it easier to run tests as a user that does not use Flask-Babel - something that does not currently happen, leaving a bit of a gap in our test coverage as flask_admin.babel has two very distinct code paths pivoted on whether the package is installed (note installed, not initialised against a Flask app)

closes: #2447

@samuelhwilliams samuelhwilliams marked this pull request as ready for review July 17, 2024 20:42
This allows us to have (almost) a single place where we have to think
about Babel (in the `babel`) fixture.

This should make it easier for us to, in the future, run tests without
babel or flask-babel installed, to validate flask-admin for users
without that package. This is important because the `flask_admin.babel`
module has two clearly different codepaths depending on whether the
package is installed.

Importantly, because of the fixture chaining (`admin` requires `babel`),
it also means that `babel` (if available) is always configured for every
flask app instance for every test.
Adds a `flask_babel` mark to any tests that explicitly require
`Flask-Babel` to be installed.

Configures tox and GitHub Actions to run a test suite with Flask-Babel
removed. This validates a codepath through `flask_admin.babel`, which
should essentially be passthrough/noop behaviour if Flask-Babel is
unavailable.
@samuelhwilliams samuelhwilliams merged commit 1b92bc7 into pallets-eco:master Jul 19, 2024
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Remove Flask-BabelEx support?
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