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TextFilterTranslatedResult

Inherits from: Instance → Object

A TextFilterTranslatedResult is the object returned by TextService:FilterAndTranslateStringAsync(). It bundles the filtered source text together with filtered translations of that text into each requested target locale.

Read TextFilterTranslatedResult.SourceText and TextFilterTranslatedResult.SourceLanguage for the filtered original text and its language, call TextFilterTranslatedResult:GetTranslationForLocale() to retrieve the filtered translation for a single locale, or call TextFilterTranslatedResult:GetTranslations() to retrieve all of them at once.

Instances of this class cannot be created, parented, or replicated; they are only produced by the engine as the return value of the filtering call. That call, TextService:FilterAndTranslateStringAsync(), is deprecated, so new work should filter and translate chat through TextChatService instead.

Inherits from: Instance

Memory category: Instances

Tags: NotCreatable, NotReplicated

Properties

NameType / ReturnsDescription
TextFilterTranslatedResult.SourceLanguagestringThe language of the original text that was filtered.
TextFilterTranslatedResult.SourceTextTextFilterResultThe filtered form of the original, untranslated text.

Inherited from Instance

NameType / ReturnsDescription
Instance.ArchivablebooleanDetermines if an Instance and its descendants can be cloned using Instance:Clone(), and can be saved/published.
Instance.archivableboolean
Instance.CapabilitiesSecurityCapabilitiesThe set of capabilities allowed to be used for scripts inside this container.
Instance.IsInSandboxbooleanIndicates whether the instance is inside a sandboxed container.
Instance.NamestringA non-unique identifier of the Instance.
Instance.ParentInstanceDetermines the hierarchical parent of the Instance.
Instance.PredictionModePredictionModeReflects the client-side prediction mode applied to the instance under server-authoritative physics.
Instance.RobloxLockedbooleanA deprecated property that used to protect CoreGui objects.
Instance.SandboxedbooleanWhen enabled, the instance can only access abilities in its Capabilities list.
Instance.UniqueIdUniqueIdA unique identifier for the instance.

Inherited from Object

NameType / ReturnsDescription
Object.ClassNamestringA read-only string representing the class this Object belongs to.
Object.classNamestring

TextFilterTranslatedResult.SourceLanguage

The language string of the original text that was submitted to TextService:FilterAndTranslateStringAsync(). This is the source language that the translations returned by TextFilterTranslatedResult:GetTranslations() were translated from. This property is read-only.

FieldValue
typestring
tags["ReadOnly","NotReplicated"]
security{"read":"None","write":"None"}
thread safetyReadSafe
categoryData
serialization{"can_load":false,"can_save":false}
capabilities["UI"]

TextFilterTranslatedResult.SourceText

A TextFilterResult representing the filtered form of the original text that was submitted to TextService:FilterAndTranslateStringAsync(), in its TextFilterTranslatedResult.SourceLanguage. Use the returned TextFilterResult to obtain the correctly filtered string for each recipient before displaying the untranslated text. This property is read-only.

FieldValue
typeTextFilterResult
tags["ReadOnly","NotReplicated"]
security{"read":"None","write":"None"}
thread safetyReadSafe
categoryData
serialization{"can_load":false,"can_save":false}
capabilities["UI"]

Methods

NameType / ReturnsDescription
TextFilterTranslatedResult:GetTranslationForLocaleTextFilterResultReturns the filtered translation of the source text for the given locale.
TextFilterTranslatedResult:GetTranslationsDictionaryReturns all filtered translations of the source text, keyed by language.

Inherited from Instance

NameType / ReturnsDescription
Instance:AddTag()Applies a tag to the instance.
Instance:childrenInstancesReturns an array of the object's children.
Instance:ClearAllChildren()This method destroys all of an instance's children.
Instance:CloneInstanceCreate a copy of an instance and all its descendants, ignoring instances that are not Archivable.
Instance:cloneInstance
Instance:Destroy()Sets the Instance.Parent property to nil, locks the Instance.Parent property, disconnects all connections, and calls Destroy() on all children.
Instance:destroy()
Instance:FindFirstAncestorInstance?Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Instance.Name is equal to the given name.
Instance:FindFirstAncestorOfClassInstance?Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Object.ClassName is equal to the given className.
Instance:FindFirstAncestorWhichIsAInstance?Returns the first ancestor of the Instance for whom Object:IsA() returns true for the given className.
Instance:FindFirstChildInstance?Returns the first child of the Instance found with the given name.
Instance:findFirstChildInstance
Instance:FindFirstChildOfClassInstance?Returns the first child of the Instance whose ClassName is equal to the given class name.
Instance:FindFirstChildWhichIsAInstance?Returns the first child of the Instance for whom Object:IsA() returns true for the given className.
Instance:FindFirstDescendantInstance?Returns the first descendant found with the given Instance.Name.
Instance:GetActorActor?Returns the Actor associated with the Instance, if any.
Instance:GetAttributeVariantReturns the value which has been assigned to the given attribute name.
Instance:GetAttributeChangedSignalRBXScriptSignalReturns an event that fires when the given attribute changes.
Instance:GetAttributesDictionaryReturns a dictionary of the instance's attributes.
Instance:GetChildrenInstancesReturns an array containing all of the instance's children.
Instance:getChildrenInstances
Instance:GetDebugIdstringReturns a coded string of the debug ID used internally by Roblox.
Instance:GetDescendantsInstancesReturns an array containing all of the descendants of the instance.
Instance:GetFullNamestringReturns a string describing the instance's ancestry.
Instance:GetStyledVariantReturns the styled or explicitly modified value of the specified property, or else the default property value if it hasn't been styled/modified.
Instance:GetStyledPropertyChangedSignalRBXScriptSignalReturns an event that fires when the given style property changes on the instance.
Instance:GetTagsArrayGets an array of all tags applied to the instance.
Instance:HasTagbooleanCheck whether the instance has a given tag.
Instance:IsAncestorOfbooleanReturns true if an Instance is an ancestor of the given descendant.
Instance:IsDescendantOfbooleanReturns true if an Instance is a descendant of the given ancestor.
Instance:isDescendantOfboolean
Instance:IsPropertyModifiedbooleanReturns true if the value stored in the specified property is not equal to the code-instantiated default.
Instance:QueryDescendantsInstancesReturns an array containing all descendants of the instance that match the selector string.
Instance:Remove()Sets the object's Parent to nil, and does the same for all its descendants.
Instance:remove()
Instance:RemoveTag()Removes a tag from the instance.
Instance:ResetPropertyToDefault()Resets a property to its default value.
Instance:SetAttribute()Sets the attribute with the given name to the given value.
Instance:WaitForChildInstanceReturns the child of the Instance with the given name. If the child does not exist, it will yield the current thread until it does.

Inherited from Object

NameType / ReturnsDescription
Object:GetPropertyChangedSignalRBXScriptSignalGet an event that fires when a given property of the object changes.
Object:IsAbooleanReturns true if an object's class matches or inherits from a given class.
Object:isAboolean

TextFilterTranslatedResult:GetTranslationForLocale

Returns the filtered TextFilterResult for the translation of the source text into locale, or nil if the result contains no translation for that locale. The locale argument is normalized to its language before lookup, so locale variants that share a language resolve to the same translation.

Parameters

NameTypeDefaultDescription
localestringThe locale identifier of the translation to retrieve.

Returns

TypeDescription
TextFilterResultThe filtered TextFilterResult for the requested locale, or nil if the result contains no translation for it.
FieldValue
securityNone
thread safetyUnsafe
capabilities["UI"]

TextFilterTranslatedResult:GetTranslations

Returns a dictionary that maps each translation's language string to its filtered TextFilterResult. The keys are the languages that the source text was translated into for the requested target locales; use TextFilterTranslatedResult:GetTranslationForLocale() to look up a single locale directly.

Returns

TypeDescription
DictionaryA dictionary mapping each translation's language string to its filtered TextFilterResult.
FieldValue
securityNone
thread safetyUnsafe
capabilities["UI"]

Events

Inherited from Instance

NameType / ReturnsDescription
Instance.AncestryChangedFires when the Instance.Parent property of this object or one of its ancestors is changed.
Instance.AttributeChangedFires whenever an attribute is changed on the Instance.
Instance.ChildAddedFires after an object is parented to this Instance.
Instance.childAdded
Instance.ChildRemovedFires after a child is removed from this Instance.
Instance.DescendantAddedFires after a descendant is added to the Instance.
Instance.DescendantRemovingFires immediately before a descendant of the Instance is removed.
Instance.DestroyingFires immediately before (or is deferred until after) the instance is destroyed via Instance:Destroy().
Instance.StyledPropertiesChangedFires whenever any style property is changed on the instance, including when a property is set to nil.

Inherited from Object

NameType / ReturnsDescription
Object.ChangedFires immediately after a property of the object changes, with some limitations.