ci: Preprocess strings before pushing to Crowdin (#4383)

patches/build.gradle.kts

@@ -21,6 +21,22 @@ dependencies {
     compileOnly(project(":patches:stub"))
 }
 
+tasks {
+    register<JavaExec>("preprocessCrowdinStrings") {
+        description = "Preprocess strings for Crowdin push"
+
+        dependsOn(build)
+
+        classpath = sourceSets["main"].runtimeClasspath
+        mainClass.set("app.revanced.util.CrowdinPreprocessorKt")
+
+        args = listOf(
+            "src/main/resources/addresources/values/strings.xml",
+            "build/tmp/crowdin/strings.xml"
+        )
+    }
+}
+
 kotlin {
     compilerOptions {
         freeCompilerArgs = listOf("-Xcontext-receivers")
@@ -38,4 +54,4 @@ publishing {
             }
         }
     }
-}
+}

patches/src/main/kotlin/app/revanced/util/CrowdinPreprocessor.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package app.revanced.util
+
+import java.io.File
+
+/**
+ * Comments out the non-standard <app> and <patch> tags.
+ *
+ * Previously this was done on Crowdin after pushing.
+ * But Crowdin preprocessing has randomly failed but still used the unmodified
+ * strings.xml file, which effectively deletes all patch strings from Crowdin.
+ */
+internal fun main(args: Array<String>) {
+    if (args.size != 2) {
+        throw RuntimeException("Exactly two arguments are required: <input_file> <output_file>")
+    }
+
+    val inputFilePath = args[0]
+    val inputFile = File(inputFilePath)
+    if (!inputFile.exists()) {
+        throw RuntimeException(
+            "Input file not found: $inputFilePath  currentDirectory: " + File(".").canonicalPath
+        )
+    }
+
+    // Comment out the non-standard tags. Otherwise Crowdin interprets the file
+    // not as Android but instead a generic xml file where strings are
+    // identified by xml position and not key.
+    val content = inputFile.readText()
+    val tagRegex = """((<app\s+.*>)|(</app>)|(<patch\s+.*>)|(</patch>))""".toRegex()
+    val modifiedContent = content.replace(tagRegex, """<!-- $1 -->""")
+
+    // Write modified content to the output file (creates file if it doesn't exist).
+    val outputFilePath = args[1]
+    val outputFile = File(outputFilePath)
+    outputFile.parentFile?.mkdirs()
+    outputFile.writeText(modifiedContent)
+
+    println("Preprocessed strings.xml to: $outputFilePath")
+}
+