Amazon Translate Simple Mock

English • 日本語 (Japanese)

This is a simple mock for Amazon Translate real-time translation API.

Docker Image on Docker Hub

Supported APIs

• TranslateText
• TranslateDocument (text/html only)

Features

• Zero-config and ready to use
• Converts en <-> ja romanization instead of fixed response
• Works stand-alone, independent of external services

Supported Languages and Behaviors

Source	Target	Behaviors	Example
ja (auto)	en	Convert Japanese to Romaji	明日は晴れです -> ashita ha hare desu
en (auto)	ja	Convert Romaji to Hiragana	ashita ha hare desu -> あした は はれ です
Any	Other than en/ja	Output specified parameters in JSON	(Value specified for parameter)

Message Commands

Put the following command in the text to be translated and it will return a response according to the command.

Note: Error responses are not highly reproducible. Avoid implementations that compare error response strings with exact matches, Check Amazon's original error response if necessary.

Command string	Behavior
@return RequestedBody	Returns the requested body as-is as a translation result
@sleep {SECONDS}	Waits for the specified seconds and returns the result. Can be used with other commands
@raise ThrottlingException	Returns ThrottlingException (status code: 429)
@raise InternalServerException	Returns InternalServerException (status code: 500)
@raise LimitExceededException	Returns LimitExceededException (status code: 400)
@raise ServiceUnavailableException	Returns ServiceUnavailableException (status code: 500)
@raise TooManyRequestsException	Returns TooManyRequestsException (status code: 400)
@raise UnsupportedLanguagePairException	Returns UnsupportedLanguagePairException (status code: 400)
@return SourceLanguageCode {code}	Returns the specified code in the SourceLanguageCode field. Cannot be used with @raise

Getting Started

Start service

from Docker Hub

$ docker pull dash14/amazon-translate-simple-mock:latest
$ docker run -it dash14/amazon-translate-simple-mock

from GitHub Repository (for develop)

$ git clone https://github.com/dash14/amazon-translate-simple-mock.git
$ cd amazon-translate-simple-mock/
$ docker compose up -d app

Usage example: Calling TranslateText with aws-cli

$ aws translate translate-text \
    --endpoint-url http://localhost:8080 \
    --source-language-code ja \
    --target-language-code en \
    --settings Formality=FORMAL \
    --text "明日は晴れです。" \
    --terminology-names "custom"

Response:

{
    "TranslatedText": "ashita ha hare desu.",
    "SourceLanguageCode": "ja",
    "TargetLanguageCode": "en",
    "AppliedTerminologies": [
        {
            "Name": "custom",
            "Terms": []
        }
    ],
    "AppliedSettings": {
        "Formality": "FORMAL"
    }
}

Usage example: Calling TranslateDocument with aws-cli

$ echo "<p>明日は晴れです。</p>" > source.txt
$ aws translate translate-document \
    --endpoint-url http://localhost:8080 \
    --document '{"ContentType":"text/html"}' \
    --source-language-code ja \
    --target-language-code en \
    --settings Formality=FORMAL \
    --document-content fileb://source.txt \
    --terminology-names "custom"

Response:

{
    "TranslatedDocument": {
        "Content": "PHA+YXNoaXRhIGhhIGhhcmUgZGVzdS48L3A+"
    },
    "SourceLanguageCode": "ja",
    "TargetLanguageCode": "en",
    "AppliedTerminologies": [
        {
            "Name": "custom",
            "Terms": []
        }
    ],
    "AppliedSettings": {
        "Formality": "FORMAL"
    }
}

License

Under the MIT license.
See LICENSE file for more details.

Contributing

Please feel free to send us an Issue or Pull Request if there are additional APIs to be supported, error variances to be improved, bugs, documentation errors, and so on!