SwiftChinese

Swift 3 framework for translating between Chinese and English with CC-CEDICT using Core Data. CC-CEDICT is a CC-BY SA 3.0 licensed English - Chinese dictionary database. Read more about it at https://cc-cedict.org/wiki/.

What is CC-CEDICT?

From https://cc-cedict.org/wiki/:

CC-CEDICT is a continuation of the CEDICT project. The objective of the CEDICT project was to create an online, downloadable (as opposed to searchable-only) public-domain Chinese-English dictionary. CEDICT was started by Paul Andrew Denisowski in October 1997. For the most part, the project is modeled on Jim Breen's highly successful EDICT (Japanese-English dictionary) project and is intended to be a collaborative effort, with users providing entries and corrections to the main file.

Usage example

Searching translations

Translations are returned as Translation objects which holds the word in Chinese and it's English definitions.

Search by simplified Chinese

let dictionary = Dictionary()
let translations: [Translation] = dictionary.translationsFor(simplifiedChinese: "好")

Search by English definition

let dictionary = Dictionary()
let translations: [Translation] = dictionary.translationsFor(english: "good")

Importing latest CC-CEDICT data

Error handling omitted for brevity. Remember to catch exceptions.

do {
    // Latest CC-CEDICT
    let exportInfo = try DictionaryExportInfo.latestDictionaryExportInfo()
    let export = DictionaryExport(exportInfo: exportInfo!)
    
    // Download the dictionary export
    export.download(onCompletion: { (exportContent, error) in
        guard error == nil else {
            debugPrint("Unable to download dictionary export. Aborting.")
            return
        }
        
        // Dictionary object used for getting translations
        let dictionary = Dictionary()
        debugPrint("Number of entries in dictionary before import: " + String(dictionary.numberOfEntries()))
        
        // Do an import
        let importer = Importer(dictionaryExport: export)
        importer.importTranslations(onProgress: { (totalEntries, progressedEntries) in
            // Progress update
            debugPrint("progressedEntries: \(progressedEntries), totalEntries: \(totalEntries)")
        }, whenFinished: { (error, newEntries, updatedEntries, removedEntries) in
            debugPrint("Number of entries in dictionary before import: " + String(dictionary.numberOfEntries()))
        })
    })
}
catch let error {
    debugPrint(error)
}