Using a callable to populate initial translations

[Chris Spencer]

After converting an existing app to django-modeltranslation, what would be the easiest way to dynamically populate translations for all fields?

The docs don't really mention any good way of doing this. I had hoped the

update_translation_fields command

(https://django-modeltranslation.readthedocs.org/en/latest/commands.html#the-update-translation-fields-command)

might do this, but the docs say it just copies the original field text into the translated field...which doesn't make sense to me, since the original field value will likely not be a valid translated value.

Is there a way to configure django-modeltranslation to call a custom method (e.g. translate(text, src_lang_code, dst_lang_code)) to dynamically look up a translation, using a translation API or your own local PO translation catalog?