Translating Bricks content using Gato GraphQL for WordPress

We can use Gato GraphQL with the Bricks extension and the Translation extension to automatically translate the content in Bricks page elements to different languages.

This query translates the content in the heading, text, text-basic, button and dropdown elements of a Bricks page to a different language.

We must provide the following variables:

customPostId: The ID of the Bricks custom post to update
targetLanguageCode: The language code to translate the content to (e.g., "es", "fr", "de")

Here is the GraphQL query:

query InitializeGlobalVariables
  @configureWarningsOnExportingDuplicateVariable(enabled: false)
{
  emptyArray: _echo(value: [])
    @export(as: "elementToUpdateIDs")
    @export(as: "elementToUpdateTexts")
    @remove
}
 
query GetAndTranslateBricksData(
  $customPostId: ID!
  $targetLanguageCode: String!
)
  @depends(on: "InitializeGlobalVariables")
{
  customPost(by:{ id: $customPostId }, status: any) {
    id
    title
    bricksData(filterBy: { include: [
      "heading",
      "text",
      "text-basic",
      "button",
      "dropdown",
    ] })
      @underEachArrayItem(
        affectDirectivesUnderPos: [1, 3]
      )
        @underJSONObjectProperty(by: { key: "id" })
          @export(as: "elementToUpdateIDs")
        @underJSONObjectProperty(
          by: { path: "settings.text" }
          affectDirectivesUnderPos: [1, 2]
        )
          @strTranslate(to: $targetLanguageCode)
          @export(as: "elementToUpdateTexts")
  }
}
 
query GetElementToUpdateData
  @depends(on: "GetAndTranslateBricksData")
{
  elementToUpdateMergeInputElements: _echo(value: $elementToUpdateTexts)
    @underEachArrayItem(
      passIndexOnwardsAs: "index",
      passValueOnwardsAs: "elementToUpdateText"
      affectDirectivesUnderPos: [1, 2]
    )
      @applyField(
        name: "_arrayItem",
        arguments: {
          array: $elementToUpdateIDs,
          position: $index
        },
        passOnwardsAs: "elementToUpdateID"
      )
      @applyField(
        name: "_echo",
        arguments: {
          value: {
            id: $elementToUpdateID,
            settings: {
              text: $elementToUpdateText
            }
          }
        }
        setResultInResponse: true
      )
    @export(as: "elementToUpdateMergeInputElements")
}
 
mutation StoreUpdatedElementText($customPostId: ID!)
  @depends(on: "GetElementToUpdateData")
{
  bricksMergeCustomPostElementDataItem(input: {
    customPostID: $customPostId
    elements: $elementToUpdateMergeInputElements
  }) {
    status
    errors {
      __typename
      ...on ErrorPayload {
        message
          @passOnwards(as: "message")
          @fail(
            message: $message
            condition: ALWAYS
          )
      }
    }
    customPost {
      __typename
      ...on CustomPost {
        id
        bricksData
      }
    }
  }
}

The variables would look like this:

{
  "customPostId": 123,
  "targetLanguageCode": "es"
}

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