Plover stdio dictionary

Add support for dictionaries written in an arbitrary language communicating via stdio.

This is a fork of benoit-pierre/plover_python_dictionary at version 1.1.0.

Usage

An stdio dictionary is a shell script, ran in ~/.local/share/plover

#!/bin/sh
./some-dictionary-binary TEFT

Protocol

The protocol uses JSON for everything except error reporting, with one json object per line.

The script first outputs its configuration, in the following form:

{"longest-key": 5, "max-latency-ms": 100, "untranslate": true}

Default values:

• max-latency-ms: null (null means it will potentially block forever)
• untranslate: false

Afterwards it'll receive stroke sequences like

{"seq": 0, "translate": ["TH", "S", "AEU", "TEFT"]}

or

{"seq": 0, "untranslate": "this is a test"}

The response should be an object with seq matching the seq value of the input.

Response keys (all optional):

• translation (for translate): The text for a successful translation, if applicable
• reverse-translation (for untranslate): The list of stroke sequences for a successful reverse lookup, if applicable

Any output on stderr is relayed back to Plover as an exception, per line.

Release history

0.1

• Initial release