Replace dependency on 'cld' with 'languagedetect' to remove native compilation issu

3 files changed, 21 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/src/electron/ipc-api/cld.ts b/src/electron/ipc-api/cld.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index a6332e22d..000000000
--- a/src/electron/ipc-api/cld.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-import { ipcMain } from 'electron';
-// @ts-ignore
-import cld from 'cld';
-
-const debug = require('../../preload-safe-debug')('Ferdium:ipcApi:cld');
-
-export default async () => {
-  ipcMain.handle('detect-language', async (_event, { sample }) => {
-    if (!cld) {
-      return null;
-    }
-    try {
-      const result = await cld.detect(sample);
-      debug('Checking language', 'probability', result.languages);
-      if (result.reliable) {
-        debug(
-          'Language detected reliably, setting spellchecker language to',
-          result.languages[0].code,
-        );
-
-        return result.languages[0].code;
-      }
-    } catch (error) {
-      console.error(error);
-      return null;
-    }
-  });
-};
diff --git a/src/electron/ipc-api/index.ts b/src/electron/ipc-api/index.ts
index 1f69c04ee..f8306d591 100644
--- a/src/electron/ipc-api/index.ts
+++ b/src/electron/ipc-api/index.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import sessionStorage from './sessionStorage';
 import appIndicator from './appIndicator';
 import download from './download';
 import localServer from './localServer';
-import cld from './cld';
+import languageDetect from './languageDetect';
 import dnd from './dnd';
 import focusState from './focusState';
 
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export default (params: {
   appIndicator(params);
   download(params);
   localServer(params);
-  cld();
+  languageDetect();
   dnd();
   focusState(params);
 };
diff --git a/src/electron/ipc-api/languageDetect.ts b/src/electron/ipc-api/languageDetect.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d344f7097
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/electron/ipc-api/languageDetect.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import { ipcMain } from 'electron';
+
+import LanguageDetect from 'languagedetect';
+
+const debug = require('../../preload-safe-debug')('Ferdium:ipcApi:languageDetect');
+
+export default async () => {
+  ipcMain.handle('detect-language', async (_event, { sample }) => {
+    if (!LanguageDetect) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    const langDetector = new LanguageDetect();
+    langDetector.setLanguageType('iso2');
+    debug('Checking language for sample:', sample);
+    const result = langDetector.detect(sample, 1);
+    debug('Language detection result:', result);
+    return result[0][0];
+  });
+};